Test 1 · ★ · Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas
Your mate goes, "Je ne aime pas sounds fine, bruv, don't be extra." What's the rule?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Je, rule · What happens: go, sound, do, not be, be · To what, where: bruv
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 24 «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» 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: Your mate goes, "Je ne aime pas sounds fine, bruv, don't be extra."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounds | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Je | punct |
| 6 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 sounds | nsubj |
| 7 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 Je | flat:foreign |
| 8 | aime | aime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pas | compound |
| 9 | pas | pas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Je | obj |
| 10 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | conj |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sounds | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 13 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sounds | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 goes | conj |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 extra | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 extra | cop |
| 18 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 do | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your mate | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sound in a quote | present | Je | bruv | fine property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | Your mate not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | infinitive | extra property | 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's the rule?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rule | det |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the rule | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It should be je aime ne pas
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 aime | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 aime | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 aime | cop |
| 4 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 aime | nsubj |
| 5 | aime | aime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 aime | dep |
| 7 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 ne | flat:foreign |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | It | aime property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Before a vowel ne becomes n': je n'aime pas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 4 ne | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ne | det |
| 3 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ne | compound |
| 4 | ne | ne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 becomes | nsubj |
| 5 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | n | n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 becomes | xcomp |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 n | punct |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 je | punct |
| 9 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 becomes | xcomp |
| 10 | n'aime | n'aime | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 je | flat:foreign |
| 11 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 je | flat:foreign |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | a vowel ne | n | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
You drop pas before a vowel: je n'aime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 drop | nsubj |
| 2 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pas | pa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drop | obj |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 vowel | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 vowel | det |
| 6 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 n'aime | punct |
| 8 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 n'aime | compound |
| 9 | n'aime | n'aime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | You | pas | a vowel | je n'aime obl | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pa=Theme before vowel=Destination |
Option 4
Je ne aime pas is the polite form
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 aime | dep |
| 2 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | aime | aime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 form | nsubj |
| 4 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 aime | dep |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 form | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 7 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 form | amod |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | aime | the polite form | 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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