Test 3 · ★ · Plurals: les, des and silent s

★ Why do bateau, oiseau and jeu all end in x in the plural?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: end · To what, where: x

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Why	nsubj
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Why	advcl:relcl
4	bateau	bateau	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 oiseau	punct
6	oiseau	oiseau	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bateau	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 jeu	cc
8	jeu	jeu	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bateau	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 end	advmod
10	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 do	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 x	case
12	x	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 plural	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 plural	det
15	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 x	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present				x in the plural			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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.

The options

Option 1

It's a random spelling mistake

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	6 mistake	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mistake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mistake	det
4	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mistake	amod
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mistake	compound
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a random spelling mistake					tree rules

Option 2

They are all masculine words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 words	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 words	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 words	advmod
4	masculine	masculine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	masculine words				all property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Words ending in -eau and -eu take x

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 take	nsubj
2	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Words	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 eau	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 in	punct
5	eau	eau	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ending	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eu	cc
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 and	punct
8	eu	eu	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eau	conj
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	x	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	gerund	Words not said here			eau and eu			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	take	infinitive	Words	x					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent x=Theme

Option 4

They are all things that move fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 things	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 things	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 things	advmod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 move	nsubj
6	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 things	acl:relcl
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	things				all property	tree rules
2	move	present	things					fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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