Test 10 · ★ · Food and drink
Mason says, "So many little words, wicked hard." ("Wicked" means very.) Which is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mason, Wicked · What happens: say, mean, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 18 «Food and drink» 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: Mason says, "So many little words, wicked hard."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 words | punct |
| 5 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 says | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wicked | punct |
| 10 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 wicked | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wicked | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mason | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: ("Wicked" means very.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wicked | punct |
| 3 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wicked | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Wicked | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Which is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Je n'aime pas carottes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 carottes | nsubj |
| 2 | n'aime | n'aime | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | carottes | carotte | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carottes | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Je n'aime pas les carottes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 carottes | nsubj |
| 2 | n'aime | n'aime | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | carottes | carotte | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carottes | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Je n'aime pas de les carottes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 carottes | nsubj |
| 2 | n'aime | n'aime | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 6 | carottes | carotte | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carottes | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Je n'aime pas des carottes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 carottes | nsubj |
| 2 | n'aime | n'aime | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | des | des | X | _ | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | carottes | carotte | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carottes | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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