Test 6 · ★★★ · Questions and simple sentences
A cartoon kid says "Je pas aime ne les maths." Your sister says, "That's well wonky." Fix it.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon kid, sister, That, you · What happens: say, be, fix · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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 cartoon kid says "Je pas aime ne les maths."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kid | compound |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 aime | punct |
| 6 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 aime | dep |
| 7 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 aime | compound |
| 8 | aime | aime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 aime | flat:foreign |
| 10 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 maths | flat:foreign |
| 11 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 aime | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 aime | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 aime | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cartoon kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
Sentence 2: Your sister says, "That's well wonky."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wonky | punct |
| 6 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 wonky | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wonky | cop |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 wonky | advmod |
| 9 | wonky | wonky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wonky | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wonky | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | That | well, wonky property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Fix it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Fix | obj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | imperative | you not said here | it | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Je aime pas ne les maths
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 aime | compound |
| 2 | aime | aime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maths | compound |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 aime | dep |
| 4 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 aime | conj |
| 5 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 ne | flat:foreign |
| 6 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
J'aime ne pas les maths
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'aime | J'aime | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 maths | nsubj |
| 2 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'aime | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'aime | flat:foreign |
| 4 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'aime | flat:foreign |
| 5 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Je ne pas aime les maths
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 maths | nsubj |
| 2 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | aime | aime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 les | compound |
| 5 | les | le | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 maths | compound |
| 6 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Je n'aime pas les maths
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 maths | nsubj |
| 2 | n'aime | n'aime | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | maths | math | 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.
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