Test 10 · ★★★ · Questions and simple sentences

What would happen if you asked "Tu aimes les chats" with your voice going down at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Tu, voice · What happens: happen, ask, aime, go down · To what, where: les chats, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 asked	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 aimes	punct
8	Tu	Tu	X	Foreign=Yes	9 aimes	nsubj
9	aimes	aime	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	ccomp
10	les	les	X	Foreign=Yes	11 chats	compound
11	chats	chat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 aimes	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 chats	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 voice	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 voice	nmod:poss
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 aimes	obl
16	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 voice	acl
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 going	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 end	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 end	det
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 going	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past	you				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	aime in a quote	present	Tu	les chats		with your voice	tree rules
4	go down	gerund	your voice not said here		at the end	down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location

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.

The options

Option 1

Nothing, the voice never matters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 matters	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 voice	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 voice	det
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 matters	advmod
6	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present	Nothing						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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

It might sound like you're telling them they like cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sound	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 telling	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 telling	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 telling	aux
7	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sound	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 telling	iobj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 like	nsubj
10	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 telling	ccomp
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	sound	might	It			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	you		them = they	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	like	present	they	cats		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cat=Theme

Option 3

It would sound rude and they'd walk off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walk	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 walk	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 walk	aux
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sound	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 walk	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	It					rude property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	walk off	would	they						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would mean "you hate cats"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hate	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hate	nsubj
6	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	ccomp
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hate	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hate in a quote	present	you	cats					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus

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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