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Test 9 · ★ · 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days

Grace from Belfast sees "La rentrée" in every shop in late August and asks, "Is that about going into something?" What does it mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grace, shop · What happens: see, ask, go, mean · To what, where: La, shop, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Grace from Belfast sees "La rentrée" in every shop in late August and asks, "Is that about going into something?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sees	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Belfast	case
3	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Grace	nmod
4	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 going	advcl
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 La	punct
6	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sees	obj
7	rentrée	rentrée	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 La	flat
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 La	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 shop	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 shop	det
11	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 August	case
13	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 August	amod
14	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shop	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asks	cc
16	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sees	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asks	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 asks	punct
19	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 going	mark
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 going	advmod
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 something	case
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 going	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Grace from Belfast	La		every shop in late August			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer la=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	present	Grace from Belfast not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go in a quote	present · progressive				something		about property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into something=Initial_Location

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: 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	shop						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A sale on Christmas presents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sale	det
2	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 presents	case
4	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 presents	compound
5	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sale	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The start of the summer holidays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 start	det
2	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 holidays	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 holidays	det
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holidays	compound
6	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 start	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start			the summer holidays					nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The door you use to go in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obl:unmarked
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	advcl
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	you	the door					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go in	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Back to school after summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 school	case
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Back	obl
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Back	obl

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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