Test 10 · ★ · Plurals: les, des and silent s
★★★ Every word must agree. Which sentence is all right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: word, sentence · What happens: agree, be
This is test 10 · ★ 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: ★★★ Every word must agree.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | SCONJ | _ | 7 agree | mark |
| 4 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 agree | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 agree | aux |
| 7 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ★ | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | must | every word | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: 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: Which sentence is all right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sentence | det |
| 2 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which sentence | all, right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Les chats noirs sont dans les jardins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Les | les | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chats | det |
| 2 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 noirs | compound |
| 3 | noirs | noir | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | sont | sont | X | _ | 3 noirs | flat:foreign |
| 5 | dans | dans | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 noirs | conj |
| 6 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 dans | flat:foreign |
| 7 | jardins | jardins | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 dans | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Le chats noirs sont dans les jardin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chats | compound |
| 2 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | noirs | noir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chats | conj |
| 4 | sont | sont | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | conj |
| 5 | dans | dans | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | conj |
| 6 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | flat:foreign |
| 7 | jardin | jardin | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Les chats noirs est dans les jardins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Les | les | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chats | det |
| 2 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | noirs | noirs | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | flat:foreign |
| 4 | est | est | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | flat:foreign |
| 5 | dans | dans | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | conj |
| 6 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | flat:foreign |
| 7 | jardins | jardins | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Les chats noir sont dans les jardins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Les | les | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chats | det |
| 2 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | noir | noir | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | flat:foreign |
| 4 | sont | sont | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | conj |
| 5 | dans | dans | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | conj |
| 6 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | flat:foreign |
| 7 | jardins | jardins | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 chats | conj |
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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