Test 12 · ★ · Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends
★★★ A French word is written in four ways. Which is correct for "the boy is at the hospital"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: write, be · To what, where: ★, four ways · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ 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: ★★★ A French word is written in four ways.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 written | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 word | case |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 5 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 written | aux:pass |
| 8 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ways | case |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 ways | nummod |
| 11 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 written | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 written | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · passive | ★ ★ a French word | four ways | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in way=Destination |
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: Which is correct for "the boy is at the hospital"?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 correct | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 correct | cop |
| 3 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 hospital | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 hospital | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hospital | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hospital | cop |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 hospital | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hospital | det |
| 11 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 correct | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 hospital | punct |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 correct | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: disagree | present | correct property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the boy | for the hospital | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Le garçon est à l'hôpital.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 est | compound |
| 2 | garçon | garçon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 est | compound |
| 3 | est | est | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | à | à | ADP | _ | 5 l'hôpital | case |
| 5 | l'hôpital | l'hôpital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 est | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 est | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Le garcon est a l'hopital.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 est | det |
| 2 | garcon | garcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 est | compound |
| 3 | est | est | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 l'hopital | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 l'hopital | det |
| 5 | l'hopital | l'hopital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 l'hopital | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Le garçon est à l'hopitâl.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 est | compound |
| 2 | garçon | garçon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 est | compound |
| 3 | est | est | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | à | à | ADP | _ | 5 l'hopitâl | case |
| 5 | l'hopitâl | l'hopitâl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 est | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 est | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Le garçon est a l'hôpital.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 est | compound |
| 2 | garçon | garçon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 est | compound |
| 3 | est | est | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 l'hôpital | det |
| 5 | l'hôpital | l'hôpital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 est | appos |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 est | punct |
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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