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Test 3 · Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style

Jack from Glasgow says, "Le bûche is brilliant, ken." Fix the little word.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack, Le bûche, you · What happens: say, be, ken, fix · To what, where: little word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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: Jack from Glasgow says, "Le bûche is brilliant, ken."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Glasgow	case
3	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jack	nmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brilliant	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 brilliant	punct
7	Le	Le	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bûche	compound
8	bûche	bûche	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brilliant	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 brilliant	cop
10	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ken	punct
12	ken	ken	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 brilliant	parataxis
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 brilliant	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 brilliant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jack from Glasgow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Le bûche					brilliant property	tree rules
3	ken in a quote	infinitive							tree rules

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: Fix the little word.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 word	amod
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fix	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	the little word					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent word=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

le bûche is right, cakes are masculine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bûche	compound
2	bûche	bûche	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 masculine	punct
6	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 masculine	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 masculine	cop
8	masculine	masculine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	le bûche					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	cakes					masculine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

la bûche, because bûche is feminine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	bûche	bûche	X	Foreign=Yes	1 la	flat:foreign
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feminine	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 feminine	mark
5	bûche	bûche	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feminine	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 feminine	cop
7	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 la	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bûche					feminine property	tree rules

Option 3

les bûche, because there are many slices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	les	les	X	Foreign=Yes	8 slices	nsubj
2	bûche	bûche	X	Foreign=Yes	1 les	flat:foreign
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 are	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 are	expl
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slices	cop
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 slices	amod
8	slices	slice	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	les	many slices					tree rules

Option 4

l'bûche, because it starts with b

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	l'bûche	l'bûche	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 starts	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 starts	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 starts	nsubj
5	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 l'bûche	acl:relcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 b	case
7	b	B	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	l'bûche	l'bûche not said here				with b	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent l'bûche=Eventuality with b=Subeventuality

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