Test 1 · Avoir: to have
Charlotte's mate says, "J'ai, tu as, il a - it's like a sneeze then a hiccup!" Which one comes next for elle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, one · What happens: say, be, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 29 «Avoir: to have» 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: Charlotte's mate says, "J'ai, tu as, il a - it's like a sneeze then a hiccup!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlotte | Charlotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Charlotte | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 J'ai | punct |
| 7 | J'ai | J'ai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 as | punct |
| 9 | tu | tu | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 as | flat:foreign |
| 10 | as | as | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 il | punct |
| 12 | il | il | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 as | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sneeze | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 a | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sneeze | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sneeze | cop |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 sneeze | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sneeze | det |
| 19 | sneeze | sneeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 il | obj |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 hiccup | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hiccup | det |
| 22 | hiccup | hiccup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sneeze | nmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 hiccup | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 hiccup | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | Charlotte's mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | mate | like a sneeze; a hiccup nmod | 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 one comes next for elle?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 comes | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 elle | case |
| 6 | elle | elle | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comes | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | which one | for elle; next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
elle a
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elle | elle | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 1 elle | obj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
elle as
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elle | elle | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 1 elle | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
elle est
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elle | elle | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | est | est | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 elle | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
elle ai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elle | elle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ai | compound |
| 2 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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