Test 11 · ★ · 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days
★★★ Kai from Auckland is in France on 11 November and asks, "Chur, how many years ago did the fighting stop, if it's 2026?"
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, France, Chur, ★ · What happens: be, ask, do · To what, where: France, fighting stop, 2026 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 33 «14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days» 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 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 France | nsubj |
| 4 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Auckland | case |
| 6 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 France | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 France | case |
| 9 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asks | nsubj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 11 | case |
| 11 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 France | nmod |
| 12 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 11 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asks | cc |
| 14 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Chur | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Chur | punct |
| 17 | Chur | Chur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 did | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 years | punct |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 many | advmod |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 years | amod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 did | nsubj |
| 22 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 21 years | advmod |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asks | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stop | det |
| 25 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stop | compound |
| 26 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 did | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 2026 | punct |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 2026 | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 2026 | nsubj |
| 30 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 2026 | cop |
| 31 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 asks | parataxis |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 asks | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ★ ★ ★ from Auckland | France | on 11 November | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | France | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | Chur | the fighting stop | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | ★ | 2026 | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
108 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 108 | 108 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
88 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 88 | 88 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
98 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 98 | 98 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
118 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 118 | 118 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | 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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