Test 12 · ★★ · At the café: ordering in French
★★★ A diabolo costs 3 euros, a croque-monsieur 6 euros and a carafe d'eau is free. Two friends share one croque-monsieur and have one diabolo each, plus a carafe. What is l'addition?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, diabolo, carafe d'eau, Two friends · What happens: ★, cost, be, share, have · To what, where: 3 euros, one croque monsieur, one diabolo, l'addition
This is test 12 · ★★ 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: ★★★ A diabolo costs 3 euros, a croque-monsieur 6 euros and a carafe d'eau is free.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 diabolo | det |
| 5 | diabolo | diabolo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 costs | nsubj |
| 6 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | ccomp |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 euros | nummod |
| 8 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 costs | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 monsieur | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 monsieur | det |
| 11 | croque | croque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 monsieur | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 croque | punct |
| 13 | monsieur | monsieur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 euros | nmod |
| 14 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 euros | nummod |
| 15 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 monsieur | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 free | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 d'eau | det |
| 18 | carafe | carafe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 d'eau | compound |
| 19 | d'eau | d'eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 free | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 free | cop |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 monsieur | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cost | present | a diabolo | 3 euros a croque monsieur 6 euros | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme euro=Value | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a carafe d'eau | free property | 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: Two friends share one croque-monsieur and have one diabolo each, plus a carafe.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 friends | nummod |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 share | nsubj |
| 3 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 monsieur | nummod |
| 5 | croque | croque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 monsieur | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 croque | punct |
| 7 | monsieur | monsieur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 share | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 share | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 diabolo | nummod |
| 11 | diabolo | diabolo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 have | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carafe | punct |
| 14 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 16 carafe | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 carafe | det |
| 16 | carafe | carafe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 share | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 share | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Two friends | one croque monsieur | a carafe obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | Two friends not said here | one diabolo | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diabolo=Patient |
Sentence 3: What is l'addition?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 l'addition | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 l'addition | cop |
| 3 | l'addition | l'addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 l'addition | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | l'addition | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
13 euros
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 euros | nummod |
| 2 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
9 euros
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 euros | nummod |
| 2 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
12 euros
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 euros | nummod |
| 2 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
15 euros
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 euros | nummod |
| 2 | euros | euro | 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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