Test 6 · ★★ · At the café: ordering in French
Harry asks, "Plate? Like a dinner plate?" What does eau plate mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Harry, eau plate · What happens: ask, mean · To what, where: Plate
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Harry asks, "Plate?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Plate | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Plate | punct |
| 5 | Plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Harry | Plate | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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: Like a dinner plate?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 plate | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 plate | det |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plate | compound |
| 4 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 plate | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 plate | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What does eau plate mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 3 | eau | eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plate | compound |
| 4 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | eau plate | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
hot water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
water on a plate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 plate | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 plate | det |
| 4 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 water | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
sparkling water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
still water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 water | advmod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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