Test 2 · ★ · France and the French-speaking world
Lily in Brussels hears "septante" and goes, "Belgium's French is broken, innit?" What's the fairest answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, fairest answer · What happens: hear, go, break, innit, be · To what, where: septante, French · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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: Lily in Brussels hears "septante" and goes, "Belgium's French is broken, innit?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hears | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Brussels | case |
| 3 | Brussels | Brussels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lily | nmod |
| 4 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 septante | punct |
| 6 | septante | septante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hears | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 septante | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 goes | cc |
| 9 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hears | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 12 | Belgium | Belgium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 French | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Belgium | case |
| 14 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 broken | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux:pass |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hears | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| 18 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | Lily in Brussels | septante | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer septante=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | present | Lily in Brussels not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break in a quote | present · passive | Belgium's French | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | innit in a quote | infinitive | 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.
Sentence 2: What's the fairest answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fairest answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, Belgians make maths mistakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 make | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 3 | Belgians | Belgian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Belgians | maths | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset math=Beneficiary mistake=Product |
Option 2
It's a Dutch word, not French
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 word | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 French | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 French | advmod |
| 8 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a Dutch word | French nmod | tree rules |
Option 3
It's old French nobody uses
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 French | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 French | cop |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 French | amod |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 uses | nsubj |
| 6 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 French | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | french property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | present | nobody | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It's a Belgian way of saying 70
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 way | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | Belgian | Belgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 saying | mark |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 saying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a Belgian way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a Belgian way not said here | 70 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 70=Topic |
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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