Test 4 · ★★ · Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl
★★ Harry has learned "-age is le". His teacher writes a sentence about the beach. Which should he write?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ Harry, teacher · What happens: learn, be, write · To what, where: age le, sentence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl» 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: ★★ Harry has learned "-age is le".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Harry | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Harry | compound |
| 3 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learned | aux |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 le | punct |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 age | punct |
| 8 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 le | compound |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 le | cop |
| 10 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learned | parataxis |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 le | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · perfect | ★ ★ Harry | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | age le | 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: His teacher writes a sentence about the beach.
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 writes | nsubj |
| 3 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sentence | det |
| 5 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 writes | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 beach | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beach | det |
| 8 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sentence | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | Harry's teacher | a sentence | about the beach | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sentence=Recipient about beach=Topic |
Sentence 3: Which should he write?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 write | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 write | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 write | nsubj |
| 4 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 write | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | should | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
les plage, because beaches are big
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | les | les | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 plage | det |
| 2 | plage | plage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 big | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 plage | punct |
| 4 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 beaches | case |
| 5 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 plage | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 big | cop |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | les plage because beaches | big property | tree rules |
Option 2
le plage, following the rule
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 plage | det |
| 2 | plage | plage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 following | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 plage | punct |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rule | det |
| 6 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 following | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | le plage | the rule | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
la plage, a famous exception
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | la | la | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 plage | det |
| 2 | plage | plage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 exception | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 exception | det |
| 5 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 exception | amod |
| 6 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plage | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
l'plage, because of the vowel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | l'plage | l'plage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vowel | punct |
| 3 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 6 vowel | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 because | fixed |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vowel | det |
| 6 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 l'plage | nmod |
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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