Test 11 · ★ · France and the French-speaking world
What would happen if you said "Bonjour !" to leave a shop in Paris?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, say, leave · To what, where: shop, Paris · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 34 «France and the French-speaking world» 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 said | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bonjour | punct |
| 8 | Bonjour | Bonjour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bonjour | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bonjour | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shop | det |
| 14 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Paris | case |
| 16 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | a shop | Paris | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shop=Theme in paris=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.
The options
Option 1
It would be perfectly normal everywhere in France
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 | 5 normal | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 normal | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 normal | cop |
| 4 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 5 normal | advmod |
| 5 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 normal | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 France | case |
| 8 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 normal | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | It | France | everywhere, normal, perfectly property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It'd sound odd: in France say au revoir
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 sound | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sound | aux |
| 3 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sound | xcomp |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 France | case |
| 7 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obl |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sound | conj |
| 9 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 revoir | compound |
| 10 | revoir | revoir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | would | It | odd property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | au revoir | France | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent revoir=Theme in france=Manner |
Option 3
It would be rude enough to get you thrown out
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 | 4 rude | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 rude | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rude | cop |
| 4 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 rude | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rude | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 get | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 thrown | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | It | enough, rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | throw out | participle | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
People would think you were from Belgium
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 Belgium | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Belgium | cop |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Belgium | case |
| 7 | Belgium | Belgium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 think | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | would | People | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | you | Belgium | 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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