Test 8 · My house and my home

Ben in Newcastle draws a house: "le cuisine, la salon, le jardin". He says, "Howay, two out of three's canny, like." (canny = pretty good) How many are actually right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ben, canny · What happens: draw, say, be · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Ben in Newcastle draws a house: "le cuisine, la salon, le jardin".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 draws	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Newcastle	case
3	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ben	nmod
4	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draws	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 cuisine	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cuisine	punct
9	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cuisine	compound
10	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draws	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 salon	punct
12	la	la	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 salon	det
13	salon	salon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cuisine	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 jardin	punct
15	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jardin	compound
16	jardin	jardin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cuisine	appos
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 jardin	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 draws	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	present	Ben in Newcastle	a house					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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: He says, "Howay, two out of three's canny, like."

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	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Howay	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Howay	punct
5	Howay	Howay	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 two	punct
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Howay	appos
8	out	out	ADP	_	12 canny	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 canny	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 canny	nummod
11	's	's	PART	_	10 three	case
12	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 two	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	12 canny	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Howay	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ben						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: (canny = pretty good) How many are actually right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 canny	punct
2	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 right	nsubj
3	=	=	SYM	_	5 good	punct
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 canny	conj
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 canny	punct
7	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 right	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
10	actually	actually	ADV	_	11 right	advmod
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

One: only le jardin is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 jardin	nummod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 le	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 le	advmod
4	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jardin	compound
5	jardin	jardin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 right	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 right	cop
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	One le jardin					right property	tree rules

Option 2

None: all three are wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 wrong	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 three	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 three	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 None	appos
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	None					wrong property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Two: le cuisine and le jardin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 cuisine	punct
3	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cuisine	compound
4	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Two	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 jardin	cc
6	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jardin	compound
7	jardin	jardin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cuisine	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

All three are right as they are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 right	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 are	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 are	nsubj
7	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all three					right property	tree rules
2	does	present	they						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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