Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / questions / French / Être: to be / t4

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."

detcompoundnsubjcasenmodpunctnsubjccompobjpunctpunctrootADETcartoonNOUNgirlNOUNfromADPCardiffPROPNsaysVERB"PUNCTJePROPNsuisVERBGalloisePROPN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 girldet
2cartooncartoonNOUNNumber=Sing3 girlcompound
3girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing6 saysnsubj
4fromfromADP_5 Cardiffcase
5CardiffCardiffPROPNNumber=Sing3 girlnmod
6sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7""PUNCT_9 suispunct
8JeJePROPNNumber=Sing9 suisnsubj
9suissuiVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 saysccomp
10GalloiseGalloisePROPNNumber=Sing9 suisobj
11..PUNCT_9 suispunct
12""PUNCT_9 suispunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresenta cartoon girl from Cardiffvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2sui in a quotepresentJeGalloisetree 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.

nmod:possnsubjnummodobjpunctrootHerPRONteacherNOUNmarksVERBoneNUMthingNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 teachernmod:poss
2teacherteacherNOUNNumber=Sing3 marksnsubj
3marksmarkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card5 thingnummod
5thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing3 marksobj
6..PUNCT_3 markspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1markpresentJe's teacherone thingvn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Destination

Sentence 3: What?

punctrootWhatPRON?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Introotroot
2??PUNCT_1 Whatpunct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The e: it should be gallois

detpunctnsubjauxcopconjrootTheDETeNOUN:PUNCTitPRONshouldAUXbeAUXgalloisX
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 edet
2eeNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
3::PUNCT_6 bepunct
4ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 bensubj
5shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin6 beaux
6bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf7 galloiscop
7galloisgalloisXForeign=Yes2 econj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Nothing, it's all correct

punctnsubjcopadvmodacl:relclrootNothingPRON,PUNCTitPRON'sAUXallADVcorrectADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Negrootroot
2,,PUNCT_1 Nothingpunct
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 correctnsubj
4'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 correctcop
5allallADV_6 correctadvmod
6correctcorrectADJDegree=Pos1 Nothingacl:relcl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentitall, correct propertytree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The capital G: it's galloise

detamodpunctnsubjcopconjrootTheDETcapitalADJGNOUN:PUNCTitPRON'sAUXgalloiseNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Gdet
2capitalcapitalADJDegree=Pos3 Gamod
3GGNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
4::PUNCT_7 galloisepunct
5ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 galloisensubj
6'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 galloisecop
7galloisegalloiseNOUNNumber=Sing3 Gconj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentitgalloisetree rules

Option 4

The word suis: it should be ai

detcompoundnsubjpunctnsubjauxcoprootTheDETwordNOUNsuisNOUN:PUNCTitPRONshouldAUXbeAUXaiNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 suisdet
2wordwordNOUNNumber=Sing3 suiscompound
3suissuisNOUNNumber=Sing8 ainsubj
4::PUNCT_3 suispunct
5ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 ainsubj
6shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin8 aiaux
7bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf8 aicop
8aiaiNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is ashouldthe word suisaitree 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/28-etre-to-be/t4/