Test 1 · ★★★ · Questions and simple sentences
★★★ Leo's friend says "J'ai dix ans, et toi ?" Leo is one year younger. What does he answer?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, Leo · What happens: say, be, answer · To what, where: J'ai ans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Questions and simple sentences» 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: ★★★ Leo's friend says "J'ai dix ans, et toi ?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Leo | case |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 J'ai | punct |
| 9 | J'ai | J'ai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ans | compound |
| 10 | dix | dix | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 J'ai | flat |
| 11 | ans | an | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 says | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 toi | punct |
| 13 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 14 toi | cc |
| 14 | toi | toi | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 says | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★ | J'ai ans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent an=Topic |
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: Leo is one year younger.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 younger | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 younger | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 year | nummod |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 younger | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 younger | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Leo | year | young property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What does he answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 answer | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answer | nsubj |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present · do-support | Leo | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Moi, j'ai onze ans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moi | punct |
| 3 | j'ai | j'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Moi | conj |
| 4 | onze | onze | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ans | nummod |
| 5 | ans | an | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 j'ai | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Je suis neuf ans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | neuf | neuf | X | _ | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | ans | ans | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Moi, je suis neuf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 je | punct |
| 3 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Moi | flat:foreign |
| 4 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Moi | flat:foreign |
| 5 | neuf | neuf | X | _ | 1 Moi | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
J'ai neuf ans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | _ | 3 ans | compound |
| 2 | neuf | neuf | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ans | an | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/t1/