Test 7 · The body
Ava calls Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds "heaps good". ("Heaps good" means really good.) What is the plural of un genou?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ava, Tête, good, plural · What happens: call, heap, mean, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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: Ava calls Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds "heaps good".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 calls | nsubj |
| 2 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Tête | Tête | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 heaps | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 épaules | punct |
| 5 | épaules | épaule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Tête | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 genoux | punct |
| 7 | genoux | genoux | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 Tête | conj |
| 8 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 9 pieds | cc |
| 9 | pieds | pied | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Tête | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pieds | punct |
| 11 | heaps | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 calls | parataxis |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heaps | xcomp |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 heaps | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | Ava | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | heap in a quote | present | Tête and épaules et pieds | good property | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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: ("Heaps good" means really good.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 3 | Heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 good | nsubj |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | good | good property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What is the plural of un genou?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plural | det |
| 4 | plural | plural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 un | case |
| 6 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plural | appos |
| 7 | genou | genou | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 un | dep |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the plural | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
des genoux
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 genoux | det |
| 2 | genoux | genoux | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
des genous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 genous | det |
| 2 | genous | genous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
des genouxs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 genouxs | det |
| 2 | genouxs | genoux | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
des genou
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | genou | genou | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 des | flat:foreign |
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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