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Test 11 · ★ · Plurals: les, des and silent s

Your cousin texts "les chevals sont trop mignons lol" (mignons = cute). What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, sont · What happens: text, mignon, be · To what, where: les chevals, mignons

This is test 11 · ★ 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 cousin texts "les chevals sont trop mignons lol" (mignons = cute).

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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 texts	nsubj
3	texts	text	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 chevals	punct
5	les	le	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chevals	flat:foreign
6	chevals	cheval	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 texts	obj
7	sont	sont	X	Foreign=Yes	9 mignons	nsubj
8	trop	trop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mignons	compound
9	mignons	mignon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chevals	nmod
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	13 mignons	discourse
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 lol	punct
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 mignons	punct
13	mignons	mignon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mignons	nmod
14	=	=	SYM	_	15 cute	punct
15	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mignons	appos
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 cute	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 texts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	text	present	Your cousin	les chevals					tree rules
2	mignon in a quote		sont	mignons					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: What's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

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

It should be chevaux: -al becomes -aux

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chevaux	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chevaux	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 chevaux	cop
4	chevaux	chevaux	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 becomes	punct
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 al	punct
7	al	al	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 becomes	nsubj
8	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chevaux	acl:relcl
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 becomes	punct
10	aux	aux	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	It	chevaux					tree rules
2	become	present	al	aux					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient chevaux=Result

Option 2

It should be cheveaux with an e

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheveaux	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cheveaux	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 cheveaux	cop
4	cheveaux	cheveaux	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 e	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 e	det
7	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheveaux	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	It	cheveaux				with a e	tree rules

Option 3

It should be les cheval, no s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheval	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cheval	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cheval	cop
4	les	le	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cheval	compound
5	cheval	cheval	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 s	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 s	det
8	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cheval	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	It	les cheval and no s					tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, chevals is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 right	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 chevals	punct
3	chevals	cheval	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					right property	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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