Test 12 · ★ · France and the French-speaking world
Ava from Wellington says, "French people near us? Sweet as!" Where could her penpal live?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava · What happens: say, penpal, live · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Ava from Wellington says, "French people near us?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Wellington | case |
| 3 | Wellington | Wellington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ava | nmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
| 7 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 people | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ava from Wellington | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
Sentence 2: Sweet as!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 Sweet | fixed |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sweet | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sweet | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: Where could her penpal live?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 penpal | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 penpal | aux |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 penpal | nsubj |
| 4 | penpal | penpal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 penpal | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 penpal | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | penpal | could | Ava | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | infinitive | Ava not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Dakar, in Senegal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dakar | Dakar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Senegal | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Senegal | case |
| 4 | Senegal | Senegal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dakar | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nouméa, New Caledonia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nouméa | Nouméa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Caledonia | punct |
| 3 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Caledonia | amod |
| 4 | Caledonia | Caledonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nouméa | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nice, in the south of France
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 south | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 south | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 south | det |
| 5 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nice | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 France | case |
| 7 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 south | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Montreal, in Quebec
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montreal | montreal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Quebec | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Quebec | case |
| 4 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Montreal | appos |
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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