Test 9 · ★ · France and the French-speaking world
★★★ A Belgian kid says septante-sept and a Paris kid says soixante-dix-sept. Do they mean the same number, and what is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Paris kid, they · What happens: say, mean, be · To what, where: septante sept, same number, number · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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: ★★★ A Belgian kid says septante-sept and a Paris kid says soixante-dix-sept.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 kid | case |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kid | det |
| 5 | Belgian | Belgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kid | amod |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | septante | septante | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 10 sept | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sept | punct |
| 10 | sept | sept | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 says | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kid | det |
| 13 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 kid | compound |
| 14 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sept | conj |
| 16 | soixante | soixante | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 sept | flat:foreign |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 dix | punct |
| 18 | dix | dix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sept | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sept | punct |
| 20 | sept | sept | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★ ★ a Belgian kid | septante sept | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sept=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a Paris kid | 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: Do they mean the same number, and what is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mean | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 number | amod |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mean | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 mean | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 it | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 what | nsubj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | they | the same number | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | number | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, 67 and 77
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 67 | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 67 | punct |
| 3 | 67 | 67 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 77 | cc |
| 5 | 77 | 77 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 67 | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
No, 77 and 97
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 77 | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 77 | punct |
| 3 | 77 | 77 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 97 | cc |
| 5 | 97 | 97 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 77 | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yes, 87
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 87 | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | 87 | 87 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, 77
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 77 | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | 77 | 77 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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