Test 4 · ★★ · At the café: ordering in French
Mason shouts "Wicked!" when his diabolo menthe arrives bright green. What is it?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mason, diabolo menthe, menthe · What happens: shout, arrive, be · To what, where: bright green
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Mason shouts "Wicked!" when his diabolo menthe arrives bright green.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mason | mason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shouts | nsubj |
| 2 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Wicked | punct |
| 4 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shouts | xcomp |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Wicked | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Wicked | punct |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 arrives | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 menthe | nmod:poss |
| 9 | diabolo | diabolo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 menthe | compound |
| 10 | menthe | menthe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrives | nsubj |
| 11 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shouts | advcl |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 green | amod |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 arrives | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shouts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | Mason | wicked property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | arrive | present | Mason's diabolo menthe | bright green | 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: What is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | menthe | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
green tea with milk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tea | amod |
| 2 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 milk | case |
| 4 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tea | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a cartoon character
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 character | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 character | compound |
| 3 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a devil-shaped cake with green icing on top
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cake | det |
| 2 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaped | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 devil | punct |
| 4 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cake | amod |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 icing | case |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 icing | amod |
| 8 | icing | icing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cake | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 icing | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
lemonade with mint syrup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lemonade | lemonade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 syrup | case |
| 3 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 syrup | compound |
| 4 | syrup | syrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 lemonade | nmod |
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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