Test 9 · Songs and rhymes
★ Your cousin reads "blancs moutons" and goes, "Blank sheep? Like, empty?" What does it mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, cousin · What happens: ★, read, go, mean · To what, where: blancs moutons, Blank sheep
This is test 9 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: ★ Your cousin reads "blancs moutons" and goes, "Blank sheep?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reads | nsubj |
| 4 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 ★ | ccomp |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 moutons | punct |
| 6 | blancs | blancs | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moutons | compound |
| 7 | moutons | mouton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reads | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 moutons | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 goes | cc |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reads | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sheep | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sheep | punct |
| 13 | Blank | blank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sheep | amod |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 goes | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | read | present | Your cousin | blancs moutons | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouton=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | present | Your cousin not said here | Blank sheep | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Like, empty?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 3 empty | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 empty | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 empty | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What does it mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | cousin | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
White sheep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sheep | amod |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Small sheep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sheep | amod |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Black sheep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sheep | amod |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Empty sheep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sheep | amod |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | 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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