Test 8 · Songs and rhymes
Lily from Cardiff asks, "Un, deux, trois, nous irons au bois - is it just counting? Tidy." What's more to it?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lily, bois · What happens: ask, count, be · To what, where: Un, Tidy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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: Lily from Cardiff asks, "Un, deux, trois, nous irons au bois - is it just counting?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Cardiff | case |
| 3 | Cardiff | Cardiff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lily | nmod |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Un | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Un | punct |
| 7 | Un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 deux | punct |
| 9 | deux | deux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Un | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trois | punct |
| 11 | trois | trois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Un | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 irons | punct |
| 13 | nous | nous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 irons | compound |
| 14 | irons | iron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Un | appos |
| 15 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bois | compound |
| 16 | bois | bois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 irons | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 counting | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 counting | aux |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 counting | nsubj |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 counting | advmod |
| 21 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 asks | conj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Lily from Cardiff | Un and deux and trois | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent un=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | count in a quote | present · progressive | bois | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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: Tidy."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tidy | tidy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tidy | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tidy | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What's more to it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 more | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 more | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Tidy | more property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It's a song about a wolf in the woods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 song | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 song | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 song | det |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 wolf | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 song | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 woods | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woods | det |
| 10 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 song | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a song | the woods | about a wolf | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The numbers rhyme with a story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 numbers | det |
| 2 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rhyme | nsubj |
| 3 | rhyme | rhyme | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rhyme | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rhyme | present | the numbers | with a story | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with story=Co-Patient |
Option 3
It's just numbers with no other words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 numbers | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 numbers | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 numbers | advmod |
| 4 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 words | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 numbers | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | numbers | with no other words | tree rules |
Option 4
It counts sheep at bedtime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 counts | nsubj |
| 2 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 counts | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 bedtime | case |
| 5 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 counts | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | It | sheep | bedtime | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
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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