Test 4 · ★ · France and the French-speaking world
Mia from Ohio is invited for "le dîner" by a family in Quebec and turns up at 7 in the evening. What went wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: family · What happens: invite, turn up, go · To what, where: Mia, 7
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Mia from Ohio is invited for "le dîner" by a family in Quebec and turns up at 7 in the evening.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Ohio | case |
| 3 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mia | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 invited | aux:pass |
| 5 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 dîner | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dîner | punct |
| 8 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dîner | compound |
| 9 | dîner | dîner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dîner | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 family | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 family | det |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Quebec | case |
| 15 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 family | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 turns | cc |
| 17 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 invited | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 turns | compound:prt |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 7 | case |
| 20 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 turns | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 evening | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 evening | det |
| 23 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turns | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 invited | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | present · passive | a family in Quebec | Mia from Ohio | for le dîner | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | turn up | present | a family in Quebec not said here | 7 | evening | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 7=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 went wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | xcomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
In Quebec they never eat dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Quebec | case |
| 2 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | present | they | dinner | Quebec | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
Option 2
In Quebec le dîner is breakfast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 dîner | case |
| 2 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dîner | compound |
| 3 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dîner | compound |
| 4 | dîner | dîner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 breakfast | compound |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 breakfast | cop |
| 6 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | dîner breakfast | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
In Quebec le dîner is lunch, at noon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 dîner | case |
| 2 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dîner | compound |
| 3 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dîner | compound |
| 4 | dîner | dîner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lunch | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lunch | cop |
| 6 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 noon | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 noon | case |
| 9 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lunch | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Quebec le dîner | lunch and noon | tree rules |
Option 4
Nothing, le dîner is always at 7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 7 | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dîner | punct |
| 3 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dîner | compound |
| 4 | dîner | dîner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 7 | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 7 | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 7 | case |
| 8 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | 7 | always property | 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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