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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."

detcompoundnsubjpunctobjdepcompoundconjpunctpunctrootADETcartoonNOUNgirlNOUNsaysVERB"PUNCTMesNOUNyeuxXsontXbleuNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 girldet
2cartooncartoonNOUNNumber=Sing3 girlcompound
3girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing4 saysnsubj
4sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5""PUNCT_6 Mespunct
6MesmeNOUNNumber=Plur4 saysobj
7yeuxyeuxX_9 bleudep
8sontsontXForeign=Yes9 bleucompound
9bleubleuNOUNNumber=Sing6 Mesconj
10..PUNCT_6 Mespunct
11""PUNCT_6 Mespunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresenta cartoon girlMes and sont bleuvn 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?

copdetnsubjpunctrootWhatPRON'sAUXtheDETmistakeNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Introotroot
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin1 Whatcop
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 mistakedet
4mistakemistakeNOUNNumber=Sing1 Whatnsubj
5??PUNCT_1 Whatpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentthe mistaketree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The colour should come first: bleus yeux

detnsubjauxadvmodpunctcompoundoblrootTheDETcolourNOUNshouldAUXcomeVERBfirstADV:PUNCTbleusNOUNyeuxNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 colourdet
2colourcolourNOUNNumber=Sing4 comensubj
3shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin4 comeaux
4comecomeVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5firstfirstADVNumForm=Word NumType=Ord4 comeadvmod
6::PUNCT_8 yeuxpunct
7bleusbleuNOUNNumber=Plur8 yeuxcompound
8yeuxyeuxNOUNNumber=Sing4 comeobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comeshouldthe colourbleus yeuxfirst propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

There is no mistake

expldetnsubjrootTherePRONisVERBnoDETmistakeNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 isexpl
2isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3nonoDETPronType=Neg4 mistakedet
4mistakemistakeNOUNNumber=Sing2 isnsubj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepresentno mistaketherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The colour needs an s: bleus

detnsubjdetobjpunctobjrootTheDETcolourNOUNneedsVERBanDETsNOUN:PUNCTbleusNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 colourdet
2colourcolourNOUNNumber=Sing3 needsnsubj
3needsneedVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 sdet
5ssNOUNNumber=Sing3 needsobj
6::PUNCT_7 bleuspunct
7bleusbleuNOUNNumber=Plur3 needsobj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1needpresentthe coloura stree rules

Option 4

yeux should be œils

nsubjauxcoprootyeuxNOUNshouldAUXbeAUXœilsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1yeuxyeuxNOUNNumber=Sing4 œilsnsubj
2shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin4 œilsaux
3bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf4 œilscop
4œilsœilNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is ashouldyeuxœilstree 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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