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Test 4 · The body

Jessica says, "It's just me hair, like, one hair-do." Why is les cheveux plural?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jessica, It, les · What happens: say, be · To what, where: hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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: Jessica says, "It's just me hair, like, one hair-do."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jessica	Jessica	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hair	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hair	punct
5	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hair	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hair	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 hair	advmod
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hair	nsubj
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	16 do	case
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 do	nummod
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 hair	punct
16	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hair	appos
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jessica						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	It	hair					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 is les cheveux plural?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 plural	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plural	cop
3	les	les	X	Foreign=Yes	5 plural	nsubj
4	cheveux	cheveux	X	Foreign=Yes	5 plural	nsubj
5	plural	plural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 plural	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	les					plural property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Jessica has two hair-dos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jessica	Jessica	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dos	nummod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dos	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hair	punct
6	dos	do	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Jessica	two hair dos					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only long hair is plural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hair	amod
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plural	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plural	cop
5	plural	plural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	long hair					plural property	tree rules

Option 3

It is a mistake in French grammar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mistake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mistake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mistake	det
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 grammar	case
6	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grammar	amod
7	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mistake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a mistake		French grammar			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

French talks about hair as many single hairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talks	amod
2	talks	talk	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 hair	case
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talks	nmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 hairs	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hairs	amod
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hairs	amod
8	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talks	nmod

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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