Test 7 · ★★ · Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing

What would happen if you said "une fille heureux" to a French teacher?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, say · To what, where: French teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 heureux	punct
8	une	une	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fille	compound
9	fille	fille	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heureux	compound
10	heureux	heureux	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 heureux	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 teacher	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 teacher	det
14	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 teacher	amod
15	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	you		a French teacher				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to teacher=Recipient

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

She'd think the girl was sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	cop
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	She						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the girl					sad property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She'd understand, but correct it to heureuse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 understand	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 correct	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 correct	cc
6	correct	correct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 understand	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 correct	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 heureuse	mark
9	heureuse	heureuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 correct	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	understand	would	She		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	correct speech: disagree	infinitive	She not said here	it	tree rules
3	heureuse	to-infinitive	She not said here		tree rules

Option 3

She'd think you said a different word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	you	a different word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 4

Nothing, it is completely correct

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	6 correct	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 correct	cop
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	6 correct	advmod
6	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

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

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