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Test 1 · ★ · Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends

Poppy moans, "cafe is literally the same as English, so unfair." What would café sound like without its é?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Poppy, cafe · What happens: moan, be, sound

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 3 «Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends» 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: Poppy moans, "cafe is literally the same as English, so unfair."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poppy	Poppy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moans	nsubj
2	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct
5	cafe	cafe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
7	literally	literally	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 moans	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 English	case
11	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 same	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 unfair	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 unfair	advmod
14	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 moans	parataxis
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 unfair	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 moans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	present	Poppy						vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	cafe					as English; literally, same property	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: What would café sound like without its é?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sound	aux
3	café	café	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	compound
4	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 é	case
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 é	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 é	nmod:poss
8	é	é	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would						like cafe's é	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

"ka-FEE", like in an American diner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 FEE	punct
2	ka	ka	X	Foreign=Yes	4 FEE	dep
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 FEE	punct
4	FEE	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 FEE	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 diner	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 diner	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 diner	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 diner	det
10	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 diner	amod
11	diner	diner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 FEE	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Exactly the same, so the accent is only decoration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 same	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 decoration	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	10 decoration	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 accent	det
7	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 decoration	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 decoration	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 decoration	advmod
10	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 same	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the accent	decoration					tree rules

Option 3

"ka-FAY", but only in capitals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 FAY	punct
2	ka	ka	X	Foreign=Yes	4 FAY	discourse
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 FAY	punct
4	FAY	fay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 FAY	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 capitals	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 capitals	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 capitals	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 capitals	case
10	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 FAY	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"KAF", because the final e would be silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 KAF	punct
2	KAF	kaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 silent	nsubj:outer
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 KAF	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 silent	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 silent	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 e	det
7	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 e	amod
8	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 silent	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 silent	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 silent	cop
11	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	KAF					silent property	tree rules

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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