Test 3 · ★ · The town and directions

★ Why might someone call a clumsy person "gauche" in English?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone · What happens: call · To what, where: ★, English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 call	obl
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 call	advmod
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 call	aux
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
7	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 person	amod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 gauche	punct
10	gauche	gauche	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 person	appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 gauche	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 English	case
13	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 call	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	might	someone	★		English			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient

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 · ← Mova's choice

It is the name of a clumsy French king

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 name	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 name	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 king	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 king	det
7	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	amod
8	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	amod
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the name				of a clumsy French king	tree rules

Option 2

It comes from the French word for straight on

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	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 word	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 on	case
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 on	advmod
9	on	on	ADV	_	2 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It			the French word			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location

Option 3

It comes from a French word meaning very clever

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	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 word	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 word	acl
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 clever	advmod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meaning	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It			a French word			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location
2	mean	gerund	a French word not said here					clever property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It comes from the French word for left, once thought awkward

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	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 word	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 left	case
8	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 thought	advmod
11	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 comes	conj
12	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It			the French word for left			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location
2	think speech: other	participle						awkward, once property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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