Test 8 · ★★ · Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing
★★ Jake from Bradford goes, "Two s's for a tiny mouse? Bruv, that's bare long." Which pair works like gros and grosse?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, that, pair · What happens: go, be, work
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: ★★ Jake from Bradford goes, "Two s's for a tiny mouse?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 3 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Bradford | case |
| 5 | Bradford | Bradford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Jake | nmod |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 s | punct |
| 9 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 s | nummod |
| 10 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | obl |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 s | case |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 mouse | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mouse | det |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mouse | amod |
| 15 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | ★ | 's Two s; for a tiny mouse | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for mouse=Beneficiary |
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: Bruv, that's bare long."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 long | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 long | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 5 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 long | amod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | Bruv vocative; long property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Which pair works like gros and grosse?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 works | nsubj |
| 3 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 gros | case |
| 5 | gros | gro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 works | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grosse | cc |
| 7 | grosse | grosse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gros | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 works | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | which pair | like gros and grosse | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
sérieux and sérieuse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sérieux | sérieux | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sérieuse | cc |
| 3 | sérieuse | sérieuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sérieux | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
grand and grande
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 grande | cc |
| 3 | grande | grande | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 grand | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
gentil and gentille
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gentil | gentil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gentille | cc |
| 3 | gentille | gentille | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 gentil | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
petit and petite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | petit | petit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 petite | cc |
| 3 | petite | petite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 petit | conj |
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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