Test 10 · Avoir: to have
Ollie from Sydney tells his penpal "Je suis mal à la tête." She goes, "Hein ?" (eh?) What should he have said?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ollie, Je, Hein · What happens: tell, go, say · To what, where: penpal, Hein · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 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: Ollie from Sydney tells his penpal "Je suis mal à la tête."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Sydney | case |
| 3 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ollie | nmod |
| 4 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 penpal | nmod:poss |
| 6 | penpal | penpal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Je | punct |
| 8 | Je | Je | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mal | nsubj |
| 9 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 mal | dep |
| 10 | mal | mal | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 penpal | conj |
| 11 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 la | flat:foreign |
| 12 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 mal | obj |
| 13 | tête | tête | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 mal | flat:foreign |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tells | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Ollie from Sydney | Ollie's penpal | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent penpal=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: She goes, "Hein ?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hein | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hein | punct |
| 5 | Hein | Hein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Je | Hein | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: (eh?)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 eh | punct |
| 2 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 eh | punct |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 eh | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 4: What should he have said?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 said | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | aux |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should · perfect | Hein | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
J'ai mal à la tête
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 mal | dep |
| 2 | mal | mal | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 3 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 mal | flat:foreign |
| 4 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 mal | flat:foreign |
| 5 | tête | tête | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 mal | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Je mal à la tête
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 mal | nsubj |
| 2 | mal | mal | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 3 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 mal | flat:foreign |
| 4 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 mal | flat:foreign |
| 5 | tête | tête | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 mal | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Je suis la tête mal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | tête | tête | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | mal | mal | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
J'ai tête mal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | tête | tête | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | mal | mal | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
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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