Test 9 · My house and my home

What would happen if you asked a French hotel for "une chambre" when you meant the dining room?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, ask, mean · To what, where: French hotel, dining room

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 asked	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hotel	det
8	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hotel	amod
9	hotel	hotel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 chambre	case
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 chambre	punct
12	une	une	X	_	13 chambre	flat:foreign
13	chambre	chambre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hotel	nmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 chambre	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 meant	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 meant	nsubj
17	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
19	dining	dining	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 room	compound
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meant	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a French hotel	for une chambre	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hotel=Recipient
3	mean	past	you	the dining room		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic

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.

The options

Option 1

They'd send you down to the cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 send	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 send	aux
3	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 send	iobj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 send	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 cellar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cellar	det
8	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send down	would	They		you	the cellar			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to cellar=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They'd show you to the dining room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 show	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 show	iobj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
7	dining	dining	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	compound
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	would	They		you			to the dining room	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Topic to room=Recipient

Option 3

They'd think you wanted a bathroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bathroom	det
7	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	want	past	you	a bathroom					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bathroom=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They'd think you wanted a bedroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bedroom	det
7	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	want	past	you	a bedroom					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bedroom=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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