Test 8 · Être: to be
★★★ Lucy's two sisters are both happy. Which sentence about them is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, sentence · What happens: be
This is test 8 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: ★★★ Lucy's two sisters are both happy.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 7 sisters | case |
| 4 | Lucy | Lucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Lucy | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sisters | nummod |
| 7 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 happy | cop |
| 9 | both | both | ADV | _ | 10 happy | advmod |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 happy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ★ | both, happy property | 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: Which sentence about them is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sentence | det |
| 2 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 right | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sentence | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which sentence about sisters | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Elles sont contents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elles | Elles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 contents | compound |
| 2 | sont | sont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 contents | compound |
| 3 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Elles sont contentes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elles | Elles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 contentes | compound |
| 2 | sont | sont | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Elles | dep |
| 3 | contentes | contente | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ils sont contents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ils | Ils | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 contents | compound |
| 2 | sont | sont | X | _ | 1 Ils | flat:foreign |
| 3 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Elles est contentes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elles | Elles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 contentes | compound |
| 2 | est | est | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Elles | flat:foreign |
| 3 | contentes | contente | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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