Test 6 · ★ · Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas

★ Why do French teachers want "je n'aime pas" in tests when kids in the street say "j'aime pas"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, French teachers, kids · What happens: do, want, say · To what, where: je n'aime pas, tests, j'aime pas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 do	nsubj
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 ★	advmod
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teachers	amod
5	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 do	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 pas	punct
8	je	je	X	Foreign=Yes	10 pas	compound
9	n'aime	n'aime	X	Foreign=Yes	10 pas	flat:foreign
10	pas	pa	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 pas	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 tests	case
13	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 say	advmod
15	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 say	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 street	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 street	det
18	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kids	nmod
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 want	advcl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 pas	punct
21	j'aime	j'aime	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pas	compound
22	pas	pa	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 say	obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 pas	punct
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	★			tree rules
2	want	present	French teachers	je n'aime pas	tests	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pa=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	kids in the street	j'aime pas		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pa=Topic

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Writing keeps ne; talk often drops it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 keeps	punct
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 keeps	xcomp
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 drops	advmod
7	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Writing	ne		tree rules
2	talk	infinitive	ne not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drop	present	Writing not said here	ne	often property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Teachers are stricter than the dictionary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stricter	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stricter	cop
3	stricter	strict	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 dictionary	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dictionary	det
6	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stricter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Teachers					than the dictionary; strict property	tree rules

Option 3

J'aime pas is a different, rude meaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	J'aime	J'aime	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 meaning	nsubj
2	pas	pas	X	Foreign=Yes	1 J'aime	flat:foreign
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meaning	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meaning	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meaning	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 different	punct
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meaning	amod
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	J'aime	a different rude meaning					tree rules

Option 4

Street French is not real French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 French	compound
2	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 French	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 French	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 French	advmod
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 French	amod
6	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Street French	real French					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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