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Test 7 · ★ · Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends

Ben goes, "No way, capitals don't get accents." What would a French dictionary say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, capitals, French dictionary · What happens: go, not get, say · To what, where: way, accents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Ben goes, "No way, capitals don't get accents."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
5	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
8	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 get	advmod
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 goes	conj
12	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Ben	no way					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not get in a quote	present · do-support	capitals	accents					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer accent=Stimulus

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 a French dictionary say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dictionary	det
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dictionary	amod
5	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a French dictionary						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Accents on capitals are against the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 law	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 capitals	case
3	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Accents	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 law	cop
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 law	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 law	det
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Accents on capitals					against the law	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Capitals keep their accents, as in ÉCOLE

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 accents	nmod:poss
4	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ÉCOLE	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 ÉCOLE	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 ÉCOLE	case
8	ÉCOLE	ÉCOLE	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 keep	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Capitals	Capitals's accents					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme
2	accent		Capitals = capital						nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Only names in capitals get accents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 names	advmod
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 capitals	case
4	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 names	nmod
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	names in capitals	accents					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer accent=Stimulus

Option 4

Capitals never have accents in French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 French	case
6	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present	Capitals	accents		French			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=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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