Test 12 · ★ · Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u
★★★ In which group does every word have a nasal vowel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: do, have · To what, where: word, nasal vowel
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | nsubj |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 group | case |
| 5 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 group | det |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 word | det |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | obj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 does | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 vowel | det |
| 12 | nasal | nasal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 vowel | amod |
| 13 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | ★ ★ ★ in which group | every word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | ★ ★ ★ in which group not said here | a nasal vowel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vowel=Patient |
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
pain, rouge, vin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rouge | punct |
| 3 | rouge | rouge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 pain | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 vin | punct |
| 5 | vin | vin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 pain | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vin | infinitive | tree rules |
Option 2
chat, main, France
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 main | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 main | punct |
| 3 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 France | punct |
| 5 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 main | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
bon, tu, maman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bon | bon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 bon | punct |
| 3 | tu | tu | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 bon | flat:foreign |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 maman | punct |
| 5 | maman | maman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bon | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
bon, maman, pain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bon | bon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 maman | punct |
| 3 | maman | maman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bon | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pain | punct |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bon | 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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