Test 7 · ★ · The town and directions
★★★ Start at the church facing north. "Tout droit, puis à gauche, puis à gauche encore." Which way are you facing at the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, church, you · What happens: start, face · To what, where: church, way, end
This is test 7 · ★ 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: ★★★ Start at the church facing north. "
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Start | nsubj |
| 4 | Start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Start | obl |
| 8 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 church | acl |
| 9 | north | north | ADV | _ | 8 facing | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Start | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Start | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | infinitive | ★ ★ ★ | the church | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | face | gerund | the church not said here | north property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: Tout droit, puis à gauche, puis à gauche encore."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tout | tout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 droit | compound |
| 2 | droit | droit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 puis | punct |
| 4 | puis | puis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 droit | conj |
| 5 | à | à | ADP | _ | 6 gauche | case |
| 6 | gauche | gauche | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 puis | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 puis | punct |
| 8 | puis | puis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 droit | conj |
| 9 | à | à | ADP | _ | 11 encore | case |
| 10 | gauche | gauche | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 encore | amod |
| 11 | encore | encore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 puis | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 droit | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 droit | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: Which way are you facing at the end?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 facing | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 facing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 facing | nsubj |
| 5 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 facing | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 facing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | present · progressive | you | which way | at the end | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Destination |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
East
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
North
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
West
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West | west | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
South
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South | south | ADV | _ | 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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