Test 7 · ★ · Clothes
Isla tries, "They're thongs, er, flip-flops." What should she say in French?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Isla, They · What happens: try, be, say · To what, where: flip flops, thongs, French · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Isla tries, "They're thongs, er, flip-flops."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tries | nsubj |
| 2 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thongs | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thongs | punct |
| 5 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thongs | nsubj |
| 6 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thongs | cop |
| 7 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tries | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 er | punct |
| 9 | er | er | INTJ | _ | 13 flops | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flops | punct |
| 11 | flip | flip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flops | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 flip | punct |
| 13 | flops | flop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tries | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tries | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tries | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Isla | flip flops | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flop=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | They | thongs | 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: What should she say in French?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 French | case |
| 6 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | Isla | French | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent what=Theme in french=Manner |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
des thongs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thongs | det |
| 2 | thongs | thong | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
des flip-flops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flops | det |
| 2 | flip | flip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flops | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 flip | punct |
| 4 | flops | flop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
des jandales
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 jandales | det |
| 2 | jandales | jandale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
des tongs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tongs | det |
| 2 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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