Test 5 · ★ · The town and directions
★ A cartoon shows a man saying "Je vais à le cinéma". What should the speech bubble say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cartoon, man, Je, speech bubble · What happens: ★, show, say, cinéma · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: ★ A cartoon shows a man saying "Je vais à le cinéma".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 ★ | acl:relcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | obj |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 man | acl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Je | punct |
| 9 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 cinéma | nsubj |
| 10 | vais | vais | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Je | flat:foreign |
| 11 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Je | flat:foreign |
| 12 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 cinéma | compound |
| 13 | cinéma | cinéma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cinéma | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show | present | a cartoon | a man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | a man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cinéma in a quote | Je | tree rules |
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: What should the speech bubble say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bubble | det |
| 4 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bubble | compound |
| 5 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | the speech bubble | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Je vais aux cinéma
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | vais | vais | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | aux | aux | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | cinéma | cinéma | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Je vais à la cinéma
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | vais | vais | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | à | à | ADP | _ | 5 cinéma | case |
| 4 | la | la | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cinéma | det |
| 5 | cinéma | cinéma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Je | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Je vais au cinéma
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 au | dep |
| 2 | vais | vais | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cinéma | compound |
| 4 | cinéma | cinéma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Je vais à les cinéma
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 cinéma | nsubj |
| 2 | vais | vais | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | cinéma | cinéma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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