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Test 10 · ★ · In the classroom

Harvey laughs, "Sounds like Caesar's." Why is it des ciseaux, not un ciseau?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Harvey, it · What happens: laugh, sound, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 20 «In the classroom» 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: Harvey laughs, "Sounds like Caesar's."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harvey	Harvey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	nsubj
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Sounds	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Sounds	punct
5	Sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 laughs	conj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 Caesar	case
7	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sounds	obl
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Caesar	case
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughs	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Harvey						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sound in a quote	present	Harvey not said here					like Caesar	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: Why is it des ciseaux, not un ciseau?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 des	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 des	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 des	nsubj
4	des	de	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ciseaux	ciseaux	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 des	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ciseau	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 ciseau	advmod
8	un	un	X	Foreign=Yes	9 ciseau	compound
9	ciseau	ciseau	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ciseaux	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 des	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					de property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

ciseaux is the word for knives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ciseaux	ciseaux	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 word	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 knives	case
6	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ciseaux	the word				for knives	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Scissors are plural in French too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plural	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 plural	cop
3	plural	plural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 French	case
5	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 plural	obl
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 plural	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Scissors			French		plural property	tree rules

Option 3

The teacher had two pairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pairs	nummod
5	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the teacher	two pairs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient

Option 4

Caesar owned the scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 owned	nsubj
2	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scissors	det
4	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 owned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	Caesar	the scissors					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot scissors=Theme

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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