Test 6 · ★ · Plurals: les, des and silent s
A cartoon pirate shouts "J'ai deux œils !" What should he shout?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon pirate, pirate · What happens: shout · To what, where: J'ai deux œils
This is test 6 · ★ 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: A cartoon pirate shouts "J'ai deux œils !"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pirate | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pirate | compound |
| 3 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouts | nsubj |
| 4 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 J'ai | punct |
| 6 | J'ai | J'ai | X | _ | 8 œils | compound |
| 7 | deux | deux | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 œils | compound |
| 8 | œils | œil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shouts | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouts | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | a cartoon pirate | J'ai deux œils | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent œil=Topic |
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 should he shout?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 shout | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 shout | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shout | nsubj |
| 4 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 shout | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | should | pirate | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
J'ai deux œils !
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | _ | 3 œils | compound |
| 2 | deux | deux | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | œils | œil | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 œils | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
J'ai deux yeuxs !
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | _ | 3 yeuxs | compound |
| 2 | deux | deux | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | yeuxs | yeux | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 yeuxs | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
J'ai deux œilx !
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 œilx | dep |
| 2 | deux | deux | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 œilx | compound |
| 3 | œilx | œilx | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 œilx | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
J'ai deux yeux !
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | deux | deux | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | yeux | yeux | X | _ | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 J'ai | punct |
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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