Test 3 · Pets and animals
Ella says, "Sweet as, but it's gold!" ("Sweet as" means great.) What is the French for her goldfish?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, it · What happens: say, be, mean · To what, where: gold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 of lesson 15 «Pets and animals» of the French course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Ella says, "Sweet as, but it's gold!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sweet | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sweet | punct |
| 5 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 Sweet | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gold | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 gold | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gold | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gold | cop |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 gold | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 gold | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | Ella | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | it | gold | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: ("Sweet as" means great.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sweet | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sweet | punct |
| 3 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 means | mark |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 as | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Sweet | advcl |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sweet | punct |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sweet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What is the French for her goldfish?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 French | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 French | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 French | det |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 goldfish | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 goldfish | nmod:poss |
| 7 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 French | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 French | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for Ella's goldfish; french property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
un poisson doré rouge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | un | un | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 poisson | det |
| 2 | poisson | poisson | X | _ | 4 rouge | compound |
| 3 | doré | doré | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rouge | amod |
| 4 | rouge | rouge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
un or poisson
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 poisson | cc |
| 3 | poisson | poisson | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 1 un | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
un poisson rouge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | un | un | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 poisson | det |
| 2 | poisson | poisson | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 3 rouge | compound |
| 3 | rouge | rouge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
un poisson or
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | un | un | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 poisson | det |
| 2 | poisson | poisson | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 2 poisson | cc |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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