Test 11 · ★ · Clothes
Ava says, "Okay, it's giving, but why the s?" ("It's giving" means it looks good.) Which colour does NOT take an s?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava, it, s, giving, colour · What happens: say, give, mean, look, not take · To what, where: s · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 17 «Clothes» 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 says, "Okay, it's giving, but why the s?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | 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 giving | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 5 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 9 giving | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Okay | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 giving | aux |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 says | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 why | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 why | cc |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 giving | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 s | det |
| 14 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 why | nsubj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | Ava | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · progressive | it | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent why=Theme |
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: ("It's giving" means it looks good.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 giving | punct |
| 3 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 giving | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 giving | aux |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 means | csubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 giving | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looks | nsubj |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looks | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present · progressive | s | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | giving | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | present | s | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Sentence 3: Which colour does NOT take an s?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 colour | det |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 s | det |
| 7 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | present · do-support | which colour | a s | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent s=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
rose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
violet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
orange
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
noir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | noir | noir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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