Test 9 · ★ · Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends
Alfie asks, "Them accents is well peng but what are they called?" ("Peng" means great.) Which name matches ç?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alfie, accents, Peng, name · What happens: ask, peng, call, mean, match · To what, where: accents, ç · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Alfie asks, "Them accents is well peng but what are they called?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alfie | Alfie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 peng | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 peng | punct |
| 5 | Them | them | DET | PronType=Dem | 6 accents | det |
| 6 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 peng | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 peng | aux |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 peng | advmod |
| 9 | peng | peng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 called | obj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 peng | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 peng | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 peng | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Alfie | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | peng in a quote | present · progressive | them accents | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call in a quote | present · passive | accents = accent | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |
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: ("Peng" means great.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Peng | punct |
| 3 | Peng | Peng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Peng | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Peng | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Which name matches ç?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matches | nsubj |
| 3 | matches | match | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ç | ç | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 matches | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 matches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | match | present | which name | ç | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ç=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
tréma
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tréma | tréma | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
accent aigu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 aigu | compound |
| 2 | aigu | aigu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
cédille
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cédille | cédille | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
accent circonflexe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 circonflexe | compound |
| 2 | circonflexe | circonflexe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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