Test 4 · ★★★ · Questions and simple sentences

★★★ Which question would a French person NOT answer with parce que?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: not answer

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answer	nsubj
4	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nmod:unmarked
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 answer	aux
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
8	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answer	nsubj
10	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 answer	advmod
11	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 que	case
13	parce	parce	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 que	compound
14	que	que	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answer	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	would	★ ★ ★ which question					with parce que	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

Pourquoi tu aimes le foot ?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pourquoi	Pourquoi	X	Foreign=Yes	3 aimes	nsubj
2	tu	tu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Pourquoi	flat:foreign
3	aimes	aime	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 foot	compound
5	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 aimes	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 aimes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	aime	present	Pourquoi	le foot					tree rules

Option 2

Pourquoi tu es triste ?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pourquoi	Pourquoi	X	Foreign=Yes	4 triste	nsubj
2	tu	tu	X	Foreign=Yes	4 triste	compound
3	es	es	X	Foreign=Yes	4 triste	compound
4	triste	triste	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 triste	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Combien de chats tu as ?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Combien	Combien	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chats	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Combien	flat:foreign
3	chats	chat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	tu	tu	X	Foreign=Yes	3 chats	flat:foreign
5	as	as	X	Foreign=Yes	3 chats	conj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chats	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Pourquoi tu ris ?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pourquoi	Pourquoi	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	tu	tu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Pourquoi	flat:foreign
3	ris	ris	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Pourquoi	flat:foreign
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Pourquoi	punct

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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