Test 12 · Songs and rhymes
★★★ Verses of "Alouette" add la tête, le bec, les yeux and le cou. How many of these four are masculine singular?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ Verses, many · What happens: add, verse, be · To what, where: la tête, Alouette
This is test 12 of lesson 31 «Songs and rhymes» 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: ★★★ Verses of "Alouette" add la tête, le bec, les yeux and le cou.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Verses | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Verses | compound |
| 4 | Verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 add | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Alouette | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Alouette | punct |
| 7 | Alouette | Alouette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Verses | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Alouette | punct |
| 9 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 tête | compound |
| 11 | tête | tête | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 add | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bec | punct |
| 13 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bec | compound |
| 14 | bec | bec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tête | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 yeux | punct |
| 16 | les | le | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 yeux | compound |
| 17 | yeux | yeux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tête | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cou | cc |
| 19 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cou | compound |
| 20 | cou | cou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 yeux | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 add | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | ★ ★ Verses of Alouette | la tête and le bec and les yeux and le cou | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tête=Patient | ||||
| 2 | verse | Alouette | nom verse «communication transitive»: of=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.
Sentence 2: How many of these four are masculine singular?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 singular | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 four | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 four | det |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 many | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 singular | cop |
| 7 | masculine | masculine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 singular | amod |
| 8 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 singular | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many of this four | singular property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
One: only le bec
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 bec | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 bec | advmod |
| 4 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bec | compound |
| 5 | bec | bec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 One | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Two: le bec and le cou
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 bec | punct |
| 3 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bec | compound |
| 4 | bec | bec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Two | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cou | cc |
| 6 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cou | compound |
| 7 | cou | cou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bec | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
None: all four are feminine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 feminine | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 four | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 four | det |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 None | appos |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 feminine | cop |
| 6 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | None | feminine property | tree rules |
Option 4
Three: le bec, le cou and les yeux
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 bec | punct |
| 3 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bec | compound |
| 4 | bec | bec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Three | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cou | punct |
| 6 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cou | compound |
| 7 | cou | cou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bec | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 les | cc |
| 9 | les | le | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bec | conj |
| 10 | yeux | yeux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bec | conj |
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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