Test 3 · ★★★ · Questions and simple sentences
★★★ A penpal writes: "J'ai deux sœurs et un frère." Lily asks "Combien de frères et sœurs tu as ?" What is the answer in numbers?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, penpal, Lily, answer · What happens: ★, write, ask, be · To what, where: Combien frères
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ A penpal writes: "J'ai deux sœurs et un frère."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 penpal | det |
| 5 | penpal | penpal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 writes | nsubj |
| 6 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 sœurs | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 J'ai | punct |
| 9 | J'ai | J'ai | X | _ | 11 sœurs | compound |
| 10 | deux | deux | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 sœurs | compound |
| 11 | sœurs | sœur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 writes | parataxis |
| 12 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 14 frère | cc |
| 13 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frère | compound |
| 14 | frère | frère | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sœurs | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | write | present | a penpal | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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: Lily asks "Combien de frères et sœurs tu as ?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 frères | punct |
| 4 | Combien | Combien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 frères | compound |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Combien | flat:foreign |
| 6 | frères | frère | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 asks | obj |
| 7 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 8 sœurs | cc |
| 8 | sœurs | sœur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 frères | conj |
| 9 | tu | tu | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 frères | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 tu | fixed |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 frères | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Lily | Combien frères et sœurs | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent frère=Recipient |
Sentence 3: What is the answer in numbers?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 numbers | case |
| 6 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 answer | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the answer in numbers | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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/t3/