Test 1 · My house and my home
Your mate goes, "Houses are boys in French, innit - un maison." Put him right.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Houses, you · What happens: go, be, put · To what, where: boys, French, mate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 21 «My house and my home» 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: Your mate goes, "Houses are boys in French, innit - un maison."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 boys | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 boys | punct |
| 6 | Houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 boys | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 boys | cop |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 French | case |
| 10 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 boys | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 maison | punct |
| 12 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maison | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 innit | punct |
| 14 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maison | compound |
| 15 | maison | maison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boys | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 boys | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your mate | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Houses | boys and innit un maison | French | 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: Put him right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | mate | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It's la maisons, every house is plural
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 maisons | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 maisons | cop |
| 3 | la | la | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maisons | amod |
| 4 | maisons | maison | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 maisons | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plural | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 plural | cop |
| 9 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maisons | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | la maisons | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | every house | plural property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It's une maison: maison is feminine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 maison | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 maison | cop |
| 3 | une | une | X | _ | 4 maison | compound |
| 4 | maison | maison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 feminine | punct |
| 6 | maison | maison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feminine | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feminine | cop |
| 8 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maison | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | une maison | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | maison | feminine property | tree rules |
Option 3
It's un maisone, with an extra e
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 maisone | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 maisone | cop |
| 3 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maisone | compound |
| 4 | maisone | maisone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 e | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 e | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 e | det |
| 8 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 e | amod |
| 9 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maisone | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | un maisone | tree rules |
Option 4
He's right, all buildings take un
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 buildings | det |
| 6 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | nsubj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 8 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | all buildings | un | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent un=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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