Test 3 · The body
The nurse asks Josh, "J'ai mal au ventre ?" Why au?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nurse · What happens: ask · To what, where: J'ai, Josh
This is test 3 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: The nurse asks Josh, "J'ai mal au ventre ?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nurse | det |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 J'ai | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 J'ai | punct |
| 7 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 asks | obj |
| 8 | mal | mal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ventre | amod |
| 9 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ventre | compound |
| 10 | ventre | ventre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 J'ai | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the nurse | J'ai | Josh | 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: Why au?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
à + le becomes au
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | à | à | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 le | compound |
| 2 | + | + | SYM | _ | 1 à | compound |
| 3 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 becomes | nsubj |
| 4 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 becomes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | à le | au | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Josh should say à le
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | à | à | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 le | amod |
| 5 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | Josh | à le | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent le=Topic |
Option 3
au means "very"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 very | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 2 means | advmod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | au | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
au is used for boys only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 boys | case |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 used | obl |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 used | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | au | for boys | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for boy=Eventuality |
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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