Test 9 · ★ · Plurals: les, des and silent s
★ Kai from Auckland writes "Je n'ai pas des frères." His mate says, "Yeah nah, sounds sweet as." (yeah nah = no) Fix it.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Je, mate, you · What happens: write, frère, say, sound, fix · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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: ★ Kai from Auckland writes "Je n'ai pas des frères."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Auckland | case |
| 4 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Je | punct |
| 7 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 frères | nsubj |
| 8 | n'ai | n'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Je | flat:foreign |
| 9 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Je | flat:foreign |
| 10 | des | des | X | _ | 7 Je | flat:foreign |
| 11 | frères | frère | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 writes | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 writes | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | ★ from Auckland | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | frère in a quote | Je | 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: His mate says, "Yeah nah, sounds sweet as."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sounds | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 nah | punct |
| 6 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 nah | discourse |
| 7 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 sounds | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sounds | punct |
| 9 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sounds | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 sweet | fixed |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Je's mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sound in a quote | present | sweet property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Sentence 3: (yeah nah = no) Fix it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 nah | punct |
| 2 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 nah | discourse |
| 3 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 = | discourse |
| 4 | = | = | SYM | _ | 7 Fix | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 Fix | det |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 no | punct |
| 7 | Fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Fix | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | imperative | you not said here | it | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Je n'ai pas les frères
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | n'ai | n'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | frères | frères | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Je n'ai pas de frères
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 frères | nsubj |
| 2 | n'ai | n'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | frères | frère | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Je n'ai pas des frère
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | n'ai | n'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | des | des | X | _ | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | frère | frère | X | _ | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Je n'ai des frères pas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 pas | compound |
| 2 | n'ai | n'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | des | des | X | _ | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | frères | frère | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pas | compound |
| 5 | pas | pa | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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