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Test 5 · ★ · Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends

Leah's mate says, "just put an accent on every a, it's safer." Why is that wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, that · What happens: say, put, be · To what, where: accent, a · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Leah's mate says, "just put an accent on every a, it's safer."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leah	Leah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Leah	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 put	advmod
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 accent	det
10	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 a	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 a	det
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 safer	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 safer	expl
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 safer	cop
17	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 put	parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Leah's mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put in a quote	infinitive		a accent		a			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme on a=Destination
3	is in a quote	present						safe 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: Why is that wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wrong	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wrong	nsubj
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

French has no accents on the letter a at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 accents	det
4	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 letter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 letter	det
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 letter	flat
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 letter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	French	no accents		the letter at all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a (has) and à (to, at) are different words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 has	det
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 words	csubj
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 à	cc
6	à	à	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	conj
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	6 à	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
10	at	at	ADP	_	8 to	conj
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 words	cop
13	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 words	amod
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		different words					tree rules

Option 3

Every a needs an accent, so the mate is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 needs	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	1 Every	fixed
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 accent	det
5	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 right	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mate	det
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 needs	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Every	a accent					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot accent=Theme
2	is	present	the mate					right property	tree rules

Option 4

Accents only go on the last letter of a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 letter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 letter	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 letter	amod
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 word	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 word	det
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 letter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Accents			the last letter of a word			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on letter=Location
2	letter			a word					nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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