Test 6 · ★ · Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends
Ollie wrote "Ou est la gare ?" His teacher laughs: "You asked 'or is the station'." What did he forget?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie, teacher, You · What happens: write, laugh, ask, be, forget · To what, where: station · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Ollie wrote "Ou est la gare ?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ou | punct |
| 4 | Ou | Ou | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 gare | compound |
| 5 | est | est | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Ou | flat:foreign |
| 6 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Ou | flat:foreign |
| 7 | gare | gare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrote | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 gare | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 gare | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Ollie | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: His teacher laughs: "You asked 'or is the station'."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughs | nsubj |
| 3 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughs | ccomp |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 station | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 station | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 station | det |
| 12 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | conj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 station | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughs | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Ollie's teacher | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | You | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | You not said here | the station | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What did he forget?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 forget | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forget | nsubj |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 forget | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · do-support | teacher | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
the cédille under the c
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cédille | det |
| 2 | cédille | cédille | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 c | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 c | det |
| 5 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cédille | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the two dots on the e
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dots | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 dots | nummod |
| 3 | dots | dot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 e | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 e | det |
| 6 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dots | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the accent grave on où
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grave | det |
| 2 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grave | compound |
| 3 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 où | case |
| 5 | où | où | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grave | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the capital letter on gare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 2 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 letter | compound |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 gare | case |
| 5 | gare | Gare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 letter | nmod |
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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