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Test 1 · ★ · Plurals: les, des and silent s

Your mate goes, "Bruv, you can't even hear the s, so why bother writing it?" What's the answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you, answer · What happens: go, not hear, bother, write, be · To what, where: s

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 26 «Plurals: les, des and silent s» 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, "Bruv, you can't even hear the s, so why bother writing it?"

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	_	6 Bruv	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Bruv	punct
6	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 goes	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 hear	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hear	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 hear	advmod
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 s	det
14	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bother	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 bother	advmod
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 bother	advmod
18	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hear	conj
19	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 bother	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 writing	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
22	"	"	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	not hear in a quote	can	you	the s					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer s=Stimulus
3	bother in a quote	infinitive	you not said here						tree rules
4	write in a quote	gerund	you not said here	s					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 answer?

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 answer	det
4	answer	answer	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 answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The s is said loudly in posh French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 s	det
2	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 French	case
7	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 French	amod
8	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		the s		posh French		loudly property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in french=Manner

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Spelling still needs it, and les tells the ear it's plural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 needs	advmod
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needs	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tells	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tells	cc
7	les	le	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tells	nsubj
8	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needs	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ear	det
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	obj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 plural	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 plural	cop
13	plural	plural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tells	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Spelling	it			still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	les	the ear					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Recipient
3	is	present	Spelling					plural property	tree rules

Option 3

The s is only written on Mondays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 s	det
2	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 written	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 written	aux:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 written	advmod
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Mondays	case
7	Mondays	Monday	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present · passive		the s			monday		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

He's right, French people never write it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 write	punct
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 write	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 write	advmod
8	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	not write	present	French people	it					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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