Test 10 · ★ · Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u

What would happen if you said le pain like the English word in a French bakery?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2 «Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pain	compound
8	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 word	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 word	det
11	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 word	amod
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pain	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 bakery	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bakery	det
15	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bakery	amod
16	bakery	bakery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 word	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You would sound wrong, and pain still means bread in French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 means	cc
7	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	nsubj
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 means	advmod
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	parataxis
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 French	case
12	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bread	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	You					wrong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	mean	present	pain	bread			still	in French	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot bread=Theme in french=Attribute

Option 2

Nothing at all, it sounds exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 sounds	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sounds	nsubj
6	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sounds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	Nothing					same property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

They would give you a window pane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pane	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pane	compound
7	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	They	a window pane	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient pane=Theme

Option 4

They would think you were hurting and fetch you a plaster at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hurting	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hurting	aux
6	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 think	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fetch	cc
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 fetch	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plaster	det
11	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	They			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hurt	past · progressive	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	fetch	present	They not said here	a plaster	you	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary plaster=Theme

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