Test 1 · Être: to be
Jacob's mate in Liverpool goes, "Je suis, tu es, il est - sounds like a footy chant, la." Which line keeps the chant going right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, suis, line, chant · What happens: go, sound, keep · To what, where: chant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 28 «Être: to be» 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 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jacob | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Liverpool | case |
| 5 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | 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 suis | punct |
| 9 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 suis | nsubj |
| 10 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 sounds | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 es | punct |
| 12 | tu | tu | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 es | flat:foreign |
| 13 | es | es | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 suis | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 il | punct |
| 15 | il | il | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 suis | conj |
| 16 | est | est | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounds | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 est | punct |
| 18 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 goes | parataxis |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 chant | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chant | det |
| 21 | footy | footy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chant | amod |
| 22 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounds | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 la. | punct |
| 24 | la. | La. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 chant | appos |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 keeps | punct |
| 26 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 27 line | det |
| 27 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 keeps | nsubj |
| 28 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 la. | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 chant | det |
| 30 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 keeps | obj |
| 31 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 chant | acl |
| 32 | right | right | ADV | _ | 31 going | advmod |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Jacob's mate in Liverpool | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sound in a quote | suis | like a footy chant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | keep | present | which line | the chant | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chant=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | the chant not said here | right 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
nous sont, vous êtes, ils sommes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nous | nous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sont | compound |
| 2 | sont | sont | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 êtes | punct |
| 4 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 êtes | amod |
| 5 | êtes | ête | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sont | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sommes | punct |
| 7 | ils | il | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sommes | compound |
| 8 | sommes | somme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sont | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nous | nous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sommes | compound |
| 2 | sommes | somme | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 êtes | punct |
| 4 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 êtes | amod |
| 5 | êtes | ête | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sommes | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ils | punct |
| 7 | ils | il | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sommes | conj |
| 8 | sont | sont | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 sommes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nous êtes, vous sommes, ils sont
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nous | nous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 êtes | compound |
| 2 | êtes | ête | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sommes | punct |
| 4 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sommes | amod |
| 5 | sommes | somme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 êtes | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ils | punct |
| 7 | ils | il | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 êtes | conj |
| 8 | sont | sont | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 êtes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nous sommes, vous es, ils sont
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nous | nous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sommes | compound |
| 2 | sommes | somme | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 es | punct |
| 4 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 es | amod |
| 5 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sommes | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ils | punct |
| 7 | ils | il | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sommes | conj |
| 8 | sont | sont | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 sommes | 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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