Test 2 · ★ · In the classroom
Sophie says, "So crayon's a pencil? Mind blown." ("Mind blown" means amazed.) What are wax crayons in French?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sophie, crayon, Mind · What happens: say, be, blow, mean · To what, where: pencil, Mind, wax crayons, French · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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: Sophie says, "So crayon's a pencil?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sophie | Sophie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pencil | punct |
| 5 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 pencil | advmod |
| 6 | crayon | crayon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pencil | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pencil | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pencil | det |
| 9 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | Sophie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | crayon | a pencil | tree rules |
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: Mind blown."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blown | nsubj |
| 2 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blown | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 blown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | participle | Mind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Sentence 3: ("Mind blown" means amazed.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mind | punct |
| 3 | Mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 4 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Mind | acl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blown | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow in a quote | participle | Mind not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Mind | amazed property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 4: What are wax crayons in French?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 crayons | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 crayons | cop |
| 3 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crayons | compound |
| 4 | crayons | crayon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 French | case |
| 6 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 crayons | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 crayons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | wax crayons | French | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
des stylos de cire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stylos | det |
| 2 | stylos | stylo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cire | compound |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 stylos | flat:foreign |
| 4 | cire | cire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
des gommes de couleur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | X | _ | 2 gommes | compound |
| 2 | gommes | gomme | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 gommes | flat:foreign |
| 4 | couleur | couleur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gommes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
des crayons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crayons | det |
| 2 | crayons | crayon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
des crayons de cire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crayons | det |
| 2 | crayons | crayon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cire | nmod:poss |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 crayons | flat:foreign |
| 4 | cire | cire | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/20-in-the-classroom/t2/