Test 6 · My house and my home
★★★ Max stays at his gran's at weekends and texts "Je suis à chez mamie." What's the problem?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, gran, Je, problem · What happens: stay, be, sui · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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: ★★★ Max stays at his gran's at weekends and texts "Je suis à chez mamie."
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 | 5 stays | nsubj |
| 4 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stays | nsubj |
| 5 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 gran | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gran | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weekends | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 weekends | cop |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 weekends | case |
| 11 | weekends | weekend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stays | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 texts | cc |
| 13 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 weekends | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 suis | punct |
| 15 | Je | Je | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 suis | nsubj |
| 16 | suis | sui | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 weekends | parataxis |
| 17 | à | à | ADP | _ | 19 mamie | case |
| 18 | chez | chez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mamie | amod |
| 19 | mamie | mamie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 suis | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stays | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | ★ ★ ★ | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Max's gran | at weekends and texts | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sui in a quote | present | Je | à chez mamie | 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: What's the problem?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the problem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
chez needs à before it, so the sentence is fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chez | chez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | à | à | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | obj |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 needs | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fine | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fine | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sentence | det |
| 9 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fine | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fine | cop |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 needs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | chez | à | before à | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot à=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | the sentence | fine property | tree rules |
Option 2
chez is a person's name, so it needs a capital C
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chez | chez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 person | case |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 needs | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 needs | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 needs | nsubj |
| 10 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 C | det |
| 12 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 C | compound |
| 13 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | chez | a person's name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | name | a capital C | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot c=Theme |
Option 3
chez can only go with moi, never with mamie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chez | chez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 moi | case |
| 6 | moi | MoI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mamie | punct |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 mamie | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 mamie | case |
| 10 | mamie | mamie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | can | chez | with moi; with mamie | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with moi=Beneficiary |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
chez already means "at the home of", so à is extra: Je suis chez mamie
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chez | chez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 2 | already | already | ADV | _ | 3 means | advmod |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 home | punct |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 home | det |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 home | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 extra | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 extra | advmod |
| 12 | à | à | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 extra | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 extra | cop |
| 14 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 suis | punct |
| 16 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 suis | nsubj |
| 17 | suis | sui | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | parataxis |
| 18 | chez | chez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mamie | amod |
| 19 | mamie | mamie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 suis | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | chez | the home | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | à | extra property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sui | present | Je | chez mamie | tree rules |
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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