Test 2 · ★ · Food and drink
Josh asks, "What's 'du' about?" when he gets du pain. What does du mean here?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh · What happens: ask, be, get, mean · To what, where: du pain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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: Josh asks, "What's 'du' about?" when he gets du pain.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 du | punct |
| 5 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 du | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 du | cop |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 du | punct |
| 8 | du | du | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 du | punct |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 du | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 du | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 du | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 gets | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gets | nsubj |
| 15 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | advcl |
| 16 | du | du | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pain | amod |
| 17 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gets | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Josh | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | du property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | present | Josh | du pain | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus |
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 does du mean here?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | du | du | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 mean | dep |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 mean | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
of the day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
some
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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