Test 3 · ★★ · At the café: ordering in French
Lily says, "Sure I wanted lemon juice, not pop." ("Pop" means fizzy drink.) What should she order next time?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, Pop · What happens: say, want, mean, order · To what, where: lemon juice, fizzy drink · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Lily says, "Sure I wanted lemon juice, not pop."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | 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 | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
| 5 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 7 wanted | discourse |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | lemon | lemon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 juice | compound |
| 9 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pop | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 pop | advmod |
| 12 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 juice | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Lily | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | past | Lily | lemon juice and pop | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot juice=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: ("Pop" means fizzy drink.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pop | punct |
| 3 | Pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pop | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 drink | amod |
| 7 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Pop | fizzy drink | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Topic |
Sentence 3: What should she order next time?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 order | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 order | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 order | nsubj |
| 4 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 order | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 order | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | should | pop | time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
un diabolo menthe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 diabolo | compound |
| 2 | diabolo | diabolo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 menthe | compound |
| 3 | menthe | menthe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
une limonade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | une | une | X | _ | 2 limonade | compound |
| 2 | limonade | limonade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
un Coca
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Coca | Coca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 un | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
un citron pressé
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | citron | citron | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 un | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pressé | pressé | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 un | flat:foreign |
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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