Test 2 · Avoir: to have
Your cousin in London goes, "Je ai a chien, bare short innit." Fix the whole thing.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, you · What happens: go, fix · To what, where: whole thing
This is test 2 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: Your cousin in London goes, "Je ai a chien, bare short innit."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 London | case |
| 4 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | nmod |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ai | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ai | punct |
| 8 | Je | Je | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ai | nsubj |
| 9 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 goes | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chien | det |
| 11 | chien | chien | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ai | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 innit | punct |
| 13 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 innit | amod |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 innit | amod |
| 15 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chien | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your cousin in London | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Fix the whole thing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fix | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | imperative | you not said here | the whole thing | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
J'ai un chien
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 un | compound |
| 2 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chien | compound |
| 3 | chien | chien | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Je ai un chien
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 chien | dep |
| 2 | ai | ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chien | compound |
| 4 | chien | chien | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Je a un chien
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chien | det |
| 3 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chien | compound |
| 4 | chien | chien | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Je | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
J'ai a chien
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 chien | dep |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chien | det |
| 3 | chien | chien | 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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