Test 8 · ★ · Plurals: les, des and silent s

What would happen if a French child read "les amis" with no z sound?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: French child · What happens: happen, read · To what, where: amis

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 read	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
6	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 read	nsubj
8	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 amis	punct
10	les	les	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 amis	det
11	amis	ami	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 read	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 amis	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 sound	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 sound	det
15	z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sound	compound
16	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 read	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	read a condition, not said to happen	participle	a French child	les amis				with no z sound	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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.

The options

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

It would sound choppy, but people would understand

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	3 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	choppy	choppy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 understand	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 understand	cc
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 understand	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 understand	aux
9	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sound	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	It					choppy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	understand	would	people						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nobody would notice, there's never a z sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 notice	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 notice	aux
3	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 's	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 's	expl
6	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 notice	ccomp
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 sound	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sound	det
9	z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sound	compound
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 's	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would	Nobody						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	present	a z sound			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would mean only one friend

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	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 friend	nummod
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It	one friend					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic

Option 4

It would mean "the enemies"

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	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 enemies	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 enemies	det
6	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	xcomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 enemies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It	the enemies					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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