Test 4 · ★ · The town and directions
Mia from Atlanta goes, "Y'all, I'm fixin' to sleep at the hôtel de ville tonight." (fixin' to = about to) What is the problem?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, I · What happens: go, fixin, sleep, be · To what, where: hôtel, problem
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Mia from Atlanta goes, "Y'all, I'm fixin' to sleep at the hôtel de ville tonight."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Atlanta | case |
| 3 | Atlanta | Atlanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mia | nmod |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Y'all | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Y'all | punct |
| 7 | Y'all | Y'all | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fixin | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fixin | nsubj |
| 10 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fixin | aux |
| 11 | fixin | fixin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 goes | advcl |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 fixin | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sleep | mark |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fixin | xcomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 hôtel | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hôtel | det |
| 17 | hôtel | hôtel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sleep | obl |
| 18 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 hôtel | conj |
| 19 | ville | ville | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 de | flat:foreign |
| 20 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 de | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Mia from Atlanta | Y'all vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fixin in a quote | present · progressive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | the hôtel | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: (fixin' to = about to) What is the problem?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 fixin | punct |
| 2 | fixin | fixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 fixin | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 about | mark |
| 5 | = | = | SYM | _ | 6 about | punct |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 2 fixin | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 about | fixed |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 fixin | punct |
| 9 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 problem | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 problem | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 problem | det |
| 12 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fixin | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 fixin | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It's the town hall, not a hotel
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 | 5 hall | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hall | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hall | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hall | compound |
| 5 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hotel | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hotel | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hotel | det |
| 9 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hall | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the town hall and a hotel | tree rules |
Option 2
It only takes French guests
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 | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 takes | advmod |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 guests | amod |
| 5 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 takes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | It | French guests | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument guest=Destination |
Option 3
Nothing, it's the cheapest hotel in town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hotel | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hotel | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hotel | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hotel | det |
| 6 | cheapest | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 hotel | amod |
| 7 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hotel | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | the cheapest hotel | town | tree rules |
Option 4
It's a railway station, not a hotel
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 | 5 station | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 station | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 station | det |
| 4 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 station | compound |
| 5 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hotel | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hotel | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hotel | det |
| 9 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 station | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a railway station and a hotel | 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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