Test 7 · ★ · Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas
★ Tom says, "J'aime le foot et je n'aime pas le rugby." His teacher says one little word would fit better. Which?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, teacher, one little word · What happens: say, fit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: ★ Tom says, "J'aime le foot et je n'aime pas le rugby."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 foot | punct |
| 6 | J'aime | J'aime | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 foot | compound |
| 7 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 foot | compound |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 foot | flat:foreign |
| 10 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 foot | conj |
| 11 | n'aime | n'aime | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 je | flat:foreign |
| 12 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 rugby | dep |
| 13 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 rugby | compound |
| 14 | rugby | rugby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 je | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 foot | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 foot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★ | 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: His teacher says one little word would fit better.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 word | nummod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fit | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fit | aux |
| 8 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 fit | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★'s teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fit | would | one little word | good property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Which?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Which | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
aussi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aussi | aussi | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
parce que
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | parce | parce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 que | compound |
| 2 | que | que | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
mais
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mais | mais | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
et
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 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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