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Test 1 · ★★ · Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing

Your mate from Manchester goes, "French is backwards, every adjective goes after, our kid." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, adjective · What happens: go, be · To what, where: kid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing» 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 mate from Manchester goes, "French is backwards, every adjective goes after, our kid."

nmod:possnsubjcasenmodpunctpunctoblcopadvmodpunctdetnsubjparataxisadvmodpunctnmod:possoblpunctpunctrootYourPRONmateNOUNfromADPManchesterPROPNgoesVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTFrenchPROPNisAUXbackwardsADV,PUNCTeveryDETadjectiveNOUNgoesVERBafterADV,PUNCTourPRONkidNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YouryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 matenmod:poss
2matemateNOUNNumber=Sing5 goesnsubj
3fromfromADP_4 Manchestercase
4ManchesterManchesterPROPNNumber=Sing2 matenmod
5goesgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
6,,PUNCT_5 goespunct
7""PUNCT_8 Frenchpunct
8FrenchFrenchPROPNNumber=Sing10 backwardsobl
9isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 backwardscop
10backwardsbackwardsADV_5 goesadvmod
11,,PUNCT_14 goespunct
12everyeveryDETPronType=Tot13 adjectivedet
13adjectiveadjectiveNOUNNumber=Sing14 goesnsubj
14goesgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 goesparataxis
15afterafterADV_14 goesadvmod
16,,PUNCT_18 kidpunct
17ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 kidnmod:poss
18kidkidNOUNNumber=Sing14 goesobl
19..PUNCT_14 goespunct
20""PUNCT_5 goespunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopresentYour mate from Manchestervn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2is in a quotepresentFrench obl; backwards propertytree rules
3go in a quotepresentevery adjectiveour kidafter propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 true?

nsubjcoppunctrootWhatPRON'sAUXtrueADJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int3 truensubj
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 truecop
3truetrueADJDegree=Posrootroot
4??PUNCT_3 truepunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresenttrue propertytree rules

The options

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

Most go after, but BAGS words like grand go before

nsubjadvmodpunctcccompoundnsubjcasenmodconjadvmodrootMostADJgoVERBafterADV,PUNCTbutCCONJBAGSNOUNwordsNOUNlikeADPgrandADJgoVERBbeforeADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MostmostADJDegree=Sup2 gonsubj
2gogoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3afterafterADV_2 goadvmod
4,,PUNCT_7 wordspunct
5butbutCCONJ_7 wordscc
6BAGSbagNOUNNumber=Plur7 wordscompound
7wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur10 gonsubj
8likelikeADP_9 grandcase
9grandgrandADJDegree=Pos7 wordsnmod
10gogoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 goconj
11beforebeforeADV_10 goadvmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopresentMostafter propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2gopresentBAGS words like grandbefore propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only colours go after, everything else before

advmodnsubjadvmodpunctobladvmodadvmodrootOnlyADVcoloursNOUNgoVERBafterADV,PUNCTeverythingPRONelseADVbeforeADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnlyonlyADV_2 coloursadvmod
2colourscolourNOUNNumber=Plur3 gonsubj
3gogoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4afterafterADV_3 goadvmod
5,,PUNCT_6 everythingpunct
6everythingeverythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot3 goobl
7elseelseADV_6 everythingadvmod
8beforebeforeADV_3 goadvmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopresentcolourseverythingafter, before propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, every single one goes before

discoursepunctdetamodnsubjadvmodrootNoINTJ,PUNCTeveryDETsingleADJoneNOUNgoesVERBbeforeADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NonoINTJPolarity=Neg6 goesdiscourse
2,,PUNCT_6 goespunct
3everyeveryDETPronType=Tot5 onedet
4singlesingleADJDegree=Pos5 oneamod
5oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing6 goesnsubj
6goesgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7beforebeforeADV_6 goesadvmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopresentevery single onebefore propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He's right, every single one goes after

nsubjcoppunctdetamodnsubjconjcompound:prtrootHePRON'sAUXrightADJ,PUNCTeveryDETsingleADJoneNOUNgoesVERBafterADP
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 rightnsubj
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 rightcop
3rightrightADJDegree=Posrootroot
4,,PUNCT_8 goespunct
5everyeveryDETPronType=Tot7 onedet
6singlesingleADJDegree=Pos7 oneamod
7oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing8 goesnsubj
8goesgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 rightconj
9afterafterADP_8 goescompound:prt
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentHeright propertytree rules
2go afterpresentevery single onevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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