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Test 3 · ★★ · False friends

Grace from Glasgow writes back, "Aye, sensible folk are great," about a sister who is très sensible. What did the penpal mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grace, sensible folk, sister, penpal · What happens: write back, be, mean

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Grace from Glasgow writes back, "Aye, sensible folk are great," about a sister who is très sensible.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 writes	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Glasgow	case
3	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Grace	nmod
4	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 writes	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 great	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 great	punct
8	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	13 great	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 folk	punct
10	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 folk	amod
11	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 great	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 great	cop
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 writes	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 great	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 great	punct
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 sister	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sister	det
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 great	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sensible	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sensible	cop
21	très	très	X	Foreign=Yes	22 sensible	dep
22	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sister	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write back	present	Grace from Glasgow						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	sensible folk					about a sister; great property	tree rules
3	is	present	a sister					sensible property	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 did the penpal mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 penpal	det
4	penpal	penpal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	the penpal						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Her sister is wise and careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wise	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wise	cop
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 careful	cc
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wise	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her sister					wise property	tree rules
2	be		Her sister not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her sister gets upset easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	xcomp
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 gets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Her sister					easily, upset property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Her sister is very bossy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bossy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bossy	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 bossy	advmod
5	bossy	bossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her sister					bossy property	tree rules

Option 4

Her sister is good at sport

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 good	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 sport	case
6	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her sister			sport		good property	tree rules

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