Test 4 · Être: to be
A cartoon girl from Cardiff says "Je suis Galloise." Her teacher marks one thing. What?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon girl, Je, teacher · What happens: say, sui, mark · To what, where: Galloise, one thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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: A cartoon girl from Cardiff says "Je suis Galloise."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | compound |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Cardiff | case |
| 5 | Cardiff | Cardiff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | nmod |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 suis | punct |
| 8 | Je | Je | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 suis | nsubj |
| 9 | suis | sui | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | ccomp |
| 10 | Galloise | Galloise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 suis | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 suis | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 suis | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cartoon girl from Cardiff | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sui in a quote | present | Je | Galloise | tree rules |
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: Her teacher marks one thing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marks | nsubj |
| 3 | marks | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thing | nummod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marks | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present | Je's teacher | one thing | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Destination |
Sentence 3: What?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The e: it should be gallois
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 e | det |
| 2 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 be | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 be | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gallois | cop |
| 7 | gallois | gallois | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 e | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nothing, it's all 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 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 correct | cop |
| 5 | all | all | 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 | all, correct property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The capital G: it's galloise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 G | det |
| 2 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 G | amod |
| 3 | G | G | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 galloise | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 galloise | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 galloise | cop |
| 7 | galloise | galloise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 G | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | galloise | tree rules |
Option 4
The word suis: it should be ai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 suis | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suis | compound |
| 3 | suis | suis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ai | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 suis | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ai | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 ai | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ai | cop |
| 8 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | the word suis | ai | 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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