Test 11 · The body
A cartoon girl says "Mes yeux sont bleu." What's the mistake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon girl, mistake · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Mes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 of lesson 16 «The body» 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: A cartoon girl says "Mes yeux sont bleu."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | compound |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mes | punct |
| 6 | Mes | me | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | obj |
| 7 | yeux | yeux | X | _ | 9 bleu | dep |
| 8 | sont | sont | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 bleu | compound |
| 9 | bleu | bleu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Mes | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mes | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cartoon girl | Mes and sont bleu | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent me=Topic |
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 mistake?
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 mistake | det |
| 4 | mistake | mistake | 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 mistake | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The colour should come first: bleus yeux
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 colour | det |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 yeux | punct |
| 7 | bleus | bleu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 yeux | compound |
| 8 | yeux | yeux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | should | the colour | bleus yeux | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
There is no mistake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 mistake | det |
| 4 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no mistake | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The colour needs an s: bleus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 colour | det |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 s | det |
| 5 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 bleus | punct |
| 7 | bleus | bleu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | the colour | a s | tree rules |
Option 4
yeux should be œils
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeux | yeux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 œils | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 œils | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 œils | cop |
| 4 | œils | œil | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | yeux | œils | tree rules |
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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