Test 8 · Pets and animals

Tyler asks, "Wait, my turtle's a girl now?" What's the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tyler, turtle, truth · What happens: ask, wait, be · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Tyler asks, "Wait, my turtle's a girl now?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Wait	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Wait	punct
5	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asks	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 girl	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 turtle	nmod:poss
8	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 girl	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 girl	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Wait	obl
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 Wait	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Wait	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Tyler			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait in a quote	infinitive			now	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	my turtle	a girl		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: What's the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the truth						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, all turtles in France are girls, so the word is too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 girls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 turtles	det
4	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 girls	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 France	case
6	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turtles	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 girls	cop
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 is	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 word	det
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 girls	conj
14	too	too	ADV	_	13 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all turtles in France	girls					tree rules
2	be	present	the word						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, tortue means a boy turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 tortue	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	tortue	tortue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 turtle	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turtle	compound
7	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	tortue	a boy turtle					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turtle=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, the word tortue is feminine, whatever the animal is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 feminine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tortue	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tortue	compound
5	tortue	tortue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feminine	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 feminine	cop
7	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whatever	punct
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 feminine	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animal	det
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whatever	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 whatever	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the word tortue					feminine property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the animal	whatever					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, he must call his turtle a girl's name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 call	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 call	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 call	aux
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 turtle	nmod:poss
7	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 name	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 girl	case
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	must	he	his turtle					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent turtle=Theme name=Result
2	name		a girl						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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