Test 5 · ★ · Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas
A cartoon cat says "Je déteste les souris !" Where is it on the ladder?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon cat, it · What happens: say, be · To what, where: ladder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: A cartoon cat says "Je déteste les souris !"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cat | compound |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Je | punct |
| 6 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 says | dep |
| 7 | déteste | déteste | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 Je | flat:foreign |
| 8 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 Je | flat:foreign |
| 9 | souris | souris | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 Je | flat:foreign |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cartoon cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: Where is it on the ladder?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ladder | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ladder | det |
| 6 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | the ladder | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
At the top: it loves mice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 top | det |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loves | obl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 loves | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 loves | nsubj |
| 6 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 loves | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | top | mice | the top | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus |
Option 2
In the middle: it quite likes mice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 likes | obl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 likes | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 likes | nsubj |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 likes | advmod |
| 7 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 likes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | middle | mice | the middle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mouse=Theme |
Option 3
It prefers mice to fish
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 | 2 prefers | nsubj |
| 2 | prefers | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prefers | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 fish | case |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prefers | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | present | It | mice | to fish | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
At the bottom: it hates mice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 bottom | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bottom | det |
| 3 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hates | obl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 hates | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hates | nsubj |
| 6 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hates | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | bottom | mice | the bottom | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus |
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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