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Test 11 · ★ · The town and directions

Ruby answers "À la piscine !" and her mum says that's lazy, she needs a whole sentence. Is she right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, mum, that · What happens: answer, say, be, need · To what, where: piscine, whole sentence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «The town and directions» 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: Ruby answers "À la piscine !" and her mum says that's lazy, she needs a whole sentence.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answers	nsubj
2	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 piscine	punct
4	À	à	ADP	_	6 piscine	case
5	la	la	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 piscine	det
6	piscine	piscine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answers	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 piscine	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 piscine	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 answers	conj
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 lazy	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lazy	cop
15	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 says	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 needs	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 needs	nsubj
18	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 answers	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sentence	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sentence	amod
21	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 needs	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	Ruby	la piscine					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piscine=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Ruby's mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	that					lazy property	tree rules
4	need	present	mum	a whole sentence					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sentence=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: Is she right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADV	_	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Yes, à la piscine is not real French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 French	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	à	à	ADP	_	5 piscine	case
4	la	la	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 piscine	det
5	piscine	piscine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 French	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 French	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 French	advmod
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 French	amod
9	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present		real French				à la piscine	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, but she should have said au piscine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 piscine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 said	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	aux
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 piscine	amod
8	au	au	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 piscine	compound
9	piscine	piscine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes, French always needs a full sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 French	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 needs	advcl
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 needs	advmod
5	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sentence	det
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sentence	amod
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present		a full sentence				always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sentence=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, short answers are normal French talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 talk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 answers	amod
4	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 talk	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	cop
6	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 talk	amod
7	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 talk	amod
8	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	short answers	normal French talk					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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