Test 11 · ★★ · At the café: ordering in French
Ruby whispers, "Perfume?! Do I smell?" when the man asks "Quel parfum ?" How should she answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, I, man · What happens: whisper, smell, ask, answer · To what, where: Perfume, Quel parfum
This is test 11 · ★★ 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: Ruby whispers, "Perfume?!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 whispers | nsubj |
| 2 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Perfume | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Perfume | punct |
| 5 | Perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whispers | obl |
| 6 | ?! | ?! | PUNCT | _ | 2 whispers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | present | Ruby | Perfume | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Do I smell?" when the man asks "Quel parfum ?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 smell | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 smell | nsubj |
| 3 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 smell | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 smell | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 asks | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asks | nsubj |
| 9 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 smell | advcl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 parfum | punct |
| 11 | Quel | quel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 parfum | amod |
| 12 | parfum | parfum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asks | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 parfum | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 parfum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | present · do-support | I | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | the man | Quel parfum | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parfum=Recipient |
Sentence 3: How should she answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 answer | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answer | nsubj |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | should | Ruby | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Non, merci, je ne porte pas de parfum !
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Non | Non | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 merci | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 merci | punct |
| 3 | merci | merci | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 parfum | compound |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 je | punct |
| 5 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 parfum | nsubj |
| 6 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 je | flat:foreign |
| 7 | porte | porte | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 je | flat:foreign |
| 8 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 je | flat:foreign |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 je | flat:foreign |
| 10 | parfum | parfum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 parfum | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Je voudrais un parfum.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 parfum | nsubj |
| 2 | voudrais | voudrais | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 parfum | compound |
| 3 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 parfum | compound |
| 4 | parfum | parfum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 parfum | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Chocolat, s'il vous plaît !
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chocolat | Chocolat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plaît | punct |
| 3 | s'il | s'il | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 plaît | compound |
| 4 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plaît | amod |
| 5 | plaît | plaît | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chocolat | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chocolat | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Merci, au revoir !
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merci | Merci | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 revoir | punct |
| 3 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 revoir | compound |
| 4 | revoir | revoir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Merci | appos |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Merci | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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