Test 2 · Hobbies and sport
Gemma from Cardiff says, "Tidy, so I play the flute: je joue à la flûte." (tidy = nice, great) What's right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gemma, je · What happens: say, play, flûte, be · To what, where: flute · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 of lesson 23 «Hobbies and sport» 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: Gemma from Cardiff says, "Tidy, so I play the flute: je joue à la flûte."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemma | Gemma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Cardiff | case |
| 3 | Cardiff | Cardiff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gemma | nmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tidy | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tidy | punct |
| 7 | Tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 play | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 play | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 play | nsubj |
| 11 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flute | det |
| 13 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 play | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 je | punct |
| 15 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 flûte | nsubj |
| 16 | joue | joue | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 je | flat:foreign |
| 17 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 je | flat:foreign |
| 18 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 je | flat:foreign |
| 19 | flûte | flûte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 play | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 play | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 play | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Gemma from Cardiff | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | play in a quote | present | Gemma from Cardiff = gemma | the flute | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flûte 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: (tidy = nice, great) What's right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 tidy | punct |
| 2 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | = | = | SYM | _ | 4 nice | punct |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tidy | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 great | punct |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tidy | conj |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 tidy | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 right | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tidy | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 tidy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Je fais à la flûte
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 fais | nsubj |
| 2 | fais | fai | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | à | à | ADP | _ | 5 flûte | case |
| 4 | la | la | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flûte | det |
| 5 | flûte | flûte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fais | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fai | present | Je | à la flûte | tree rules |
Option 2
Je joue à la flûte
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 flûte | nsubj |
| 2 | joue | joue | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | flûte | flûte | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Je joue de la flûte
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 flûte | nsubj |
| 2 | joue | joue | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | flûte | flûte | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Je joue au flûte
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 flûte | nsubj |
| 2 | joue | joue | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | au | au | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | flûte | flûte | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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