Test 11 · ★★ · Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing

Your cousin writes "Elle est Anglaise" with a capital A. What's the fix?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, A. · What happens: write, be · To what, where: Elle est Anglaise, fix

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Anglaise	punct
5	Elle	Elle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Anglaise	compound
6	est	EST	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Anglaise	compound
7	Anglaise	Anglaise	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Anglaise	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 capital	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 capital	det
11	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obl
12	A.	A.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 capital	appos
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 fix	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fix	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fix	det
16	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 A.	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Your cousin	Elle est Anglaise				with a capital	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anglaise=Theme
2	is a	present	A.	the fix					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Anglais with no e

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anglais	Anglais	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 e	case
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 e	det
4	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anglais	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Nothing, it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules

Option 3

Anglaises with an s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anglaises	anglais	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 s	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 s	det
4	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anglaises	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

anglaise with a small a

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anglaise	anglaise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 small	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 small	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 anglaise	nmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	1 anglaise	flat

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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