Test 11 · ★ · Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u
★★★ Lily writes down how she heard four words: "SHA", "zhuh", "KATR", "TAY". Which list of spellings matches them in order?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, list · What happens: write down, hear, match, list · To what, where: four words, spellings, order
This is test 11 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ Lily writes down how she heard four words: "SHA", "zhuh", "KATR", "TAY".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Lily | case |
| 4 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 writes | compound:prt |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 writes | ccomp |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 words | nummod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 SHA | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 SHA | punct |
| 14 | SHA | SHA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 words | appos |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 SHA | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 zhuh | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 zhuh | punct |
| 18 | zhuh | zhuh | INTJ | _ | 14 SHA | discourse |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 zhuh | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 KATR | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 KATR | punct |
| 22 | KATR | KATR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 SHA | appos |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 KATR | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 TAY | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 TAY | punct |
| 26 | TAY | tay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 SHA | appos |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 TAY | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | present | ★ ★ Lily | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | ★ | four words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
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: Which list of spellings matches them in order?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 list | det |
| 2 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matches | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 spellings | case |
| 4 | spellings | spelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 list | nmod |
| 5 | matches | match | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 matches | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matches | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 matches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | match | present | which list of spellings | spellings = spelling | order | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 2 | list | spellings | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
chat, je, quatre, thé
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 je | punct |
| 3 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 chat | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quatre | punct |
| 5 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chat | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thé | punct |
| 7 | thé | thé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chat | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
sac, je, quatre, thé
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sac | sac | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 je | punct |
| 3 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 sac | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quatre | punct |
| 5 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sac | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thé | punct |
| 7 | thé | thé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sac | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
chat, jaune, quatre, thé
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 jaune | punct |
| 3 | jaune | jaune | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 1 chat | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quatre | punct |
| 5 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chat | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thé | punct |
| 7 | thé | thé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chat | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
chat, je, quatorze, thé
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 je | punct |
| 3 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 chat | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quatorze | punct |
| 5 | quatorze | quatorze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chat | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thé | punct |
| 7 | thé | thé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chat | conj |
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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