Test 9 · ★★★ · Questions and simple sentences

★★★ Which answer fits the question "Qu'est-ce que c'est ?"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: fit · To what, where: question

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	6 fits	nsubj
4	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 answer	det
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fits	nsubj
6	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 question	det
8	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fits	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 que	punct
10	Qu'est	Qu'est	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 que	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Qu'est	punct
12	ce	ce	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 que	compound
13	que	que	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 question	appos
14	c'est	c'est	PRON	_	13 que	goeswith
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 que	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 que	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	★ ★ ★	the question					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient

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

Il s'appelle Biscuit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Il	Il	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 s'appelle	nsubj
2	s'appelle	s'appelle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Biscuit	Biscuit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 s'appelle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	s'appelle	present	Il	Biscuit					tree rules

Option 2

J'habite à Lyon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	J'habite	J'habite	X	Foreign=Yes	3 Lyon	flat:foreign
2	à	à	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Lyon	amod
3	Lyon	Lyon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

J'ai dix ans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	_	3 ans	compound
2	dix	dix	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 J'ai	flat
3	ans	an	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

C'est un escargot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	C'est	C'est	X	Foreign=Yes	3 escargot	dep
2	un	un	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 escargot	det
3	escargot	escargot	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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