Test 1 · Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style
Charlotte from Kent goes, "They have the big dinner the night before? Bit early, innit?" What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Charlotte, They, you · What happens: go, have, innit, be · To what, where: big dinner, Bit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 32 «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» 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: Charlotte from Kent goes, "They have the big dinner the night before?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlotte | Charlotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Kent | case |
| 3 | Kent | Kent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Charlotte | nmod |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 7 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dinner | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dinner | amod |
| 11 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 have | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Charlotte from Kent | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | They | the big dinner | night | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=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: Bit early, innit?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 innit | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Bit | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bit | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | innit | imperative | you not said here | Bit | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, but only in Quebec, never in France
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 Quebec | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 Quebec | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 Quebec | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Quebec | case |
| 6 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 France | punct |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 France | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 France | case |
| 10 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Quebec | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
No, the French don't eat anything special
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 eat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 French | det |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 eat | advmod |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 anything | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | present · do-support | the French | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, in many families it's on the 24th
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 10 24th | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 families | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 families | case |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 families | amod |
| 5 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 24th | nsubj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 24th | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 24th | cop |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 24th | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 24th | det |
| 10 | 24th | 24th | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many families | the 24th | tree rules |
Option 4
No, French Christmas dinner is always on the 26th
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 French | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dinner | amod |
| 4 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dinner | compound |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 26th | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 26th | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 26th | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 26th | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 26th | det |
| 10 | 26th | 26th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | French Christmas dinner | the 26th | always property | tree rules |
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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