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Test 4 · ★★ · Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing

★★ Nathan describes his gran as "vieux" and his teacher shakes her head. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, teacher · What happens: describe, shake · To what, where: gran, head

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: ★★ Nathan describes his gran as "vieux" and his teacher shakes her head.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 describes	nsubj
2	★	★	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
3	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
4	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gran	nmod:poss
6	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 vieux	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 vieux	punct
9	vieux	vieux	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 vieux	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shakes	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teacher	nmod:poss
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shakes	nsubj
14	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 describes	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shakes	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	★	★'s gran				as vieux	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gran=Theme as vieux=Attribute
2	shake	present	★'s teacher	teacher's head					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

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

Gran is feminine, so it is vieille

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 feminine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feminine	cop
3	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 vieille	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 vieille	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 vieille	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 vieille	cop
8	vieille	vieille	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feminine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Gran					feminine property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	vieille					tree rules

Option 2

It should be vieuxe with an e

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	4 vieuxe	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vieuxe	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 vieuxe	cop
4	vieuxe	vieuxe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 e	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 e	det
7	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vieuxe	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	It	vieuxe				with a e	tree rules

Option 3

Vieux only goes with animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vieux	Vieux	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 animals	case
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Vieux					with animals	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with animal=Beneficiary

Option 4

Vieux is rude, you should say jeune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vieux	Vieux	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rude	conj
8	jeune	jeune	X	Foreign=Yes	7 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Vieux					rude property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	should	you	jeune					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jeune=Topic

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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