Test 6 · ★ · France and the French-speaking world
★ Jack from Glasgow answers "On dit quoi ?" with a whole paragraph about his day. What's a better reply?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, better reply · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: dit quoi
This is test 6 · ★ 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: ★ Jack from Glasgow answers "On dit quoi ?" with a whole paragraph about his day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answers | nsubj |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Glasgow | case |
| 4 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoi | punct |
| 7 | On | on | ADP | _ | 9 quoi | case |
| 8 | dit | dit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quoi | compound |
| 9 | quoi | quoi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answers | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoi | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoi | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 paragraph | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 paragraph | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 paragraph | amod |
| 15 | paragraph | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answers | obl |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 day | nmod:poss |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paragraph | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present | ★ from Glasgow | dit quoi | with a whole paragraph about ★'s day | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent quoi=Eventuality |
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 a better reply?
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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reply | det |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 reply | amod |
| 5 | reply | reply | 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 | a better reply | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Il est quatre heures
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Il | Il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 est | nsubj |
| 2 | est | est | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heures | compound |
| 4 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 est | obj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Je m'appelle Jack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 Jack | nsubj |
| 2 | m'appelle | m'appelle | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Au revoir, à demain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 revoir | compound |
| 2 | revoir | revoir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 demain | punct |
| 4 | à | à | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 demain | amod |
| 5 | demain | demain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 revoir | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ça va un peu, et toi ?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ça | Ça | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 va | flat:foreign |
| 2 | va | va | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 3 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 va | flat:foreign |
| 4 | peu | peu | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 va | flat:foreign |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 et | punct |
| 6 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 va | conj |
| 7 | toi | toi | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 va | flat:foreign |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 va | punct |
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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