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."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Manchester | case |
| 4 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mate | nmod |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 French | punct |
| 8 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 backwards | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 backwards | cop |
| 10 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 5 goes | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 goes | punct |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 adjective | det |
| 13 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goes | nsubj |
| 14 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 goes | parataxis |
| 15 | after | after | ADV | _ | 14 goes | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kid | punct |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kid | nmod:poss |
| 18 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goes | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 goes | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your mate from Manchester | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | French obl; backwards property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | every adjective | our kid | after property | vn 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?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Most go after, but BAGS words like grand go before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADV | _ | 2 go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 words | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 words | cc |
| 6 | BAGS | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 words | compound |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 go | nsubj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 grand | case |
| 9 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | nmod |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Most | after property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | present | BAGS words like grand | before property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Only colours go after, everything else before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 colours | advmod |
| 2 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 everything | punct |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 everything | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | colours | everything | after, before property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
No, every single one goes before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 goes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 one | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 goes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | every single one | before property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
He's right, every single one goes after
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 goes | punct |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 one | det |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | nsubj |
| 8 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 goes | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go after | present | every single one | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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