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Test 6 · Être: to be

Leo from Brisbane asks, "So is it je suis neuf ans, mate?" What do you tell him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo, you · What happens: ask, tell · To what, where: je ans, Leo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: Leo from Brisbane asks, "So is it je suis neuf ans, mate?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Brisbane	case
3	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Leo	nmod
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 je	punct
7	So	so	ADV	_	10 je	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 je	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 je	nsubj
10	je	je	X	Foreign=Yes	13 ans	compound
11	suis	suis	X	Foreign=Yes	10 je	flat:foreign
12	neuf	neuf	X	_	10 je	flat:foreign
13	ans	an	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asks	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ans	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Leo from Brisbane	je ans and mate					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent an=Recipient

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 do you tell him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	you		Leo				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's je suis neuf, no ans

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	3 je	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 je	cop
3	je	je	X	Foreign=Yes	4 suis	nsubj
4	suis	sui	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	neuf	neuf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suis	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ans	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 ans	det
8	ans	an	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 suis	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sui	present	je	neuf				no ans obl	tree rules

Option 2

It's je es neuf ans

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 es	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 es	cop
3	je	je	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 es	amod
4	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	neuf	neuf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ans	amod
6	ans	an	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 es	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	je es and neuf ans					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Age uses avoir: j'ai neuf ans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	avoir	avoir	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 j'ai	punct
5	j'ai	j'ai	X	Foreign=Yes	2 uses	obj
6	neuf	neuf	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ans	nummod
7	ans	an	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 j'ai	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Age	avoir					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, je suis neuf ans is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 je	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 je	punct
3	je	je	X	Foreign=Yes	8 right	nsubj
4	suis	suis	X	Foreign=Yes	3 je	flat:foreign
5	neuf	neuf	X	_	3 je	flat:foreign
6	ans	ans	X	Foreign=Yes	3 je	flat:foreign
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	je					right property	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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