Test 3 · Être: to be
Gran in Bristol goes, "That wee hat's everywhere, my lover - why's it on êtes?" What's a true answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gran · What happens: go, be · To what, where: true answer
This is test 3 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
Sentence 1: Gran in Bristol goes, "That wee hat's everywhere, my lover - why's it on êtes?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Bristol | case |
| 3 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gran | nmod |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 everywhere | punct |
| 7 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 hat | det |
| 8 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hat | amod |
| 9 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 everywhere | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 hat | case |
| 11 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 goes | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 why | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lover | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 why | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 lover | punct |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 everywhere | parataxis |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 why | advcl:relcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 's | nsubj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 êtes | case |
| 20 | êtes | ête | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 's | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Gran in Bristol | everywhere 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.
Sentence 2: What's a true answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a true answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It remembers an old s that was dropped
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 | 2 remembers | nsubj |
| 2 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 s | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 s | amod |
| 5 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remembers | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 dropped | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dropped | aux:pass |
| 8 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 s | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | It | a old s | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent s=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drop | past · passive | a old s | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
It shows the word is said very loudly
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 | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 shows | ccomp |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 loudly | advmod |
| 8 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 2 shows | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | It | loudly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | the word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
Option 3
It's just there to look pretty
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 there | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 there | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 there | advcl |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 look | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | pretty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
It means the word is a question
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 | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 question | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 question | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 question | det |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the word | a question | tree rules |
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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