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Test 1 · ★★ · False friends

Your mate writes to a French pal, "Raisins are dry, innit?" when she said she ate du raisin. What's the mix-up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Raisins, mix up · What happens: write, be, innit, say, eat · To what, where: French pal, raisin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 35 «False friends» 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: Your mate writes to a French pal, "Raisins are dry, innit?" when she said she ate du raisin.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 pal	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pal	det
6	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pal	amod
7	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dry	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dry	punct
10	Raisins	raisin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dry	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dry	cop
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 writes	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 dry	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 said	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 innit	advcl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ate	nsubj
21	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
22	du	du	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 raisin	det
23	raisin	raisin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ate	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Your mate		a French pal				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to pal=Recipient
2	is in a quote	present	Raisins					dry property	tree rules
3	innit in a quote	infinitive							tree rules
4	say speech: ask	past	mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	eat	past	mate	du raisin					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raisin=Patient

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 mix-up?

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	6 up	det
4	mix	mix	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 up	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the mix up						tree rules

The options

Option 1

She ate dried plums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dried	dried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plums	amod
4	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	She	dried plums					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, they're the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 same	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 same	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					same property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She ate fresh grapes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grapes	amod
4	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	She	fresh grapes					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Patient

Option 4

She ate a sort of pudding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 pudding	case
6	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	She	a sort of pudding					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient
2	sort			pudding					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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