Test 8 · ★ · Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends
Lily in Atlanta says, "Y'all, dirty and salty look the same!" Which pair is she looking at?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, Y'all, pair · What happens: say, look · To what, where: same · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Lily in Atlanta says, "Y'all, dirty and salty look the same!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Atlanta | case |
| 3 | Atlanta | Atlanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lily | nmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Y'all | punct |
| 7 | Y'all | Y'all | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 look | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dirty | punct |
| 9 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Y'all | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 salty | cc |
| 11 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dirty | conj |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 same | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 look | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | Lily in Atlanta | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | present | Y'all | the same | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |
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 pair is she looking at?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 looking | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · progressive | which pair | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
sel and selle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sel | sel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 selle | cc |
| 3 | selle | selle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sel | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
sale and sel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sel | cc |
| 3 | sel | sel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sale | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
salé and salade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salé | salé | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 salade | cc |
| 3 | salade | salade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 salé | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
sale and salé
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 salé | cc |
| 3 | salé | salé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sale | conj |
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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