Test 7 · Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style

What would happen if you flipped a crêpe at la Chandeleur with a coin in your other hand, according to the tradition?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, flip, accord · To what, where: crêpe, la

This is test 7 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 flipped	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 flipped	nsubj
6	flipped	flip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crêpe	det
8	crêpe	crêpe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flipped	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 la	case
10	la	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 crêpe	nmod
11	Chandeleur	Chandeleur	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 la	flat
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 coin	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 coin	det
14	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flipped	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 hand	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hand	amod
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coin	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tradition	punct
20	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 tradition	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 according	fixed
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tradition	det
23	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would				accord the tradition	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flip a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a crêpe	la	with a coin in your other hand	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent crêpe=Theme at la=Destination
3	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It'd turn to gold

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	3 turn	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			gold			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to gold=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You'd have luck all year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	You	luck			year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient

Option 3

You'd become king for the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	You	king			day		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

You'd have to pay for the crêpes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pay	mark
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 crêpes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crêpes	det
8	crêpes	crêpe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	You						tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	You not said here					for the crêpes	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for crêpe=Theme

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