Test 6 · Avoir: to have
Harvey from Glasgow goes, "Och, the endings are doin' ma heid in!" (doing my head in = driving me mad) Which pair of endings helps him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Harvey, endings, doing · What happens: go, be, do, drive, help · To what, where: doin, head, me, Harvey
This is test 6 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: Harvey from Glasgow goes, "Och, the endings are doin' ma heid in!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvey | Harvey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Glasgow | case |
| 3 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Harvey | nmod |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 doin | punct |
| 7 | Och | och | INTJ | _ | 12 doin | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Och | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 endings | det |
| 10 | endings | ending | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 doin | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 doin | cop |
| 12 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obl |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 heid | punct |
| 14 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heid | compound |
| 15 | heid | heid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doin | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heid | compound:prt |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 heid | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 heid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Harvey from Glasgow | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the endings | doin | 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: (doing my head in = driving me mad) Which pair of endings helps him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 doing | punct |
| 2 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 helps | csubj |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 doing | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 head | nmod |
| 6 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 7 driving | punct |
| 7 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 doing | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 driving | obj |
| 9 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pair | amod |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 mad | punct |
| 11 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 12 pair | det |
| 12 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driving | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 endings | case |
| 14 | endings | ending | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pair | nmod |
| 15 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 helps | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | my head | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | drive | gerund | me | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent i=Theme pair=Destination | |||||
| 3 | help | present | doing | Harvey | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
nous ends -ons, vous ends -ez
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nous | nous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | nsubj |
| 2 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ons | punct |
| 4 | ons | on | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ends | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ends | punct |
| 6 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ends | amod |
| 7 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ons | conj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ez | punct |
| 9 | ez | ez | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ons | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | nous | ons and vous ends and ez | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2
nous ends -ez, vous ends -ons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nous | nous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | nsubj |
| 2 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ends | punct |
| 4 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ends | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ends | punct |
| 6 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ends | amod |
| 7 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ends | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ons | punct |
| 9 | ons | on | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ends | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | nous | ez vous ends and ons | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality end=Eventuality |
Option 3
nous ends -ent, vous ends -er
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nous | nous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | nsubj |
| 2 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ent | punct |
| 4 | ent | ent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ends | punct |
| 6 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ends | amod |
| 7 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ent | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ends | punct |
| 9 | er | er | INTJ | _ | 2 ends | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | nous | ent | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality ent=Eventuality |
Option 4
nous ends -ont, vous ends -as
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nous | nous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | nsubj |
| 2 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ont | punct |
| 4 | ont | ont | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 ends | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ends | punct |
| 6 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ends | amod |
| 7 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ont | conj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 as | punct |
| 9 | as | a | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ends | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | nous | ont and vous ends | as obl | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality ont=Eventuality |
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