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Test 10 · ★★ · At the café: ordering in French

Ben's friend jokes, "Mate, you're leaving already?" when Ben says "Merci, au revoir !" as the drinks come. What should Ben say then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, you, Ben, drinks · What happens: joke, leave, say, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 19 «At the café: ordering in French» 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: Ben's friend jokes, "Mate, you're leaving already?" when Ben says "Merci, au revoir !" as the drinks come.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ben	case
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jokes	nsubj
4	jokes	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Mate	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Mate	punct
7	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jokes	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leaving	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 leaving	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 leaving	aux
11	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 jokes	advcl
12	already	already	ADV	_	11 leaving	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 leaving	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 leaving	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 says	advmod
16	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 jokes	advcl
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Merci	punct
19	Merci	Merci	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 revoir	punct
21	au	au	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 revoir	compound
22	revoir	revoir	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Merci	appos
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 revoir	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 revoir	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 drinks	det
27	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 come	nsubj
28	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 revoir	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jokes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present	Ben's friend					Mate vocative	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave in a quote	present · progressive	you						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	Ben						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	come	present	the drinks						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: What should Ben say then?

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	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 say	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	Ben				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bonjour, again and again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bonjour	Bonjour	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 again	punct
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Bonjour	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 again	cc
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 again	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Just merci, and au revoir later when leaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 merci	advmod
2	merci	merci	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 revoir	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 revoir	cc
5	au	au	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 revoir	compound
6	revoir	revoir	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 merci	appos
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 leaving	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 leaving	advmod
9	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 revoir	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund						late property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

L'addition, before drinking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	L'addition	L'addition	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 L'addition	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 drinking	mark
4	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 L'addition	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Bonne nuit, and nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bonne	bonne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nuit	compound
2	nuit	nuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nothing	cc
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 nuit	appos
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 nothing	advmod

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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