Test 9 · Avoir: to have

★★★ Fill both gaps: "Nous ___ un chien et ils ___ deux chats."

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: fill · To what, where: gaps

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Fill	nsubj
4	Fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 gaps	det
6	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Fill	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Nous	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Nous	punct
9	Nous	Nous	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fill	parataxis
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 Nous	punct
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 Fill	punct
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 un	punct
13	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Fill	parataxis
14	chien	chien	X	Foreign=Yes	13 un	dep
15	et	et	X	Foreign=Yes	14 chien	flat:foreign
16	ils	ils	X	Foreign=Yes	14 chien	flat:foreign
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 Fill	punct
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 Fill	punct
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 chats	punct
20	deux	deux	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chats	compound
21	chats	chat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Fill	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Fill	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Fill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	infinitive	★ ★ ★	both gaps					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

sommes, ont

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sommes	somme	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 sommes	punct
3	ont	ont	X	Foreign=Yes	1 sommes	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

avons, ont

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	avons	avons	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ont	punct
3	ont	ont	X	Foreign=Yes	1 avons	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

avez, sont

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	avez	avez	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sont	punct
3	sont	sont	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 avez	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

avons, sont

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	avons	avon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sont	punct
3	sont	sont	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 avons	conj

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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