Test 8 · ★★ · False friends
Charlie from Kent hears "Tu es blessé ?" after falling off his bike and says "Bless you!" What should he have answered?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Charlie, Tu · What happens: hear, be, fall off, say, bless, answer · To what, where: bike, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Charlie from Kent hears "Tu es blessé ?" after falling off his bike and says "Bless you!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlie | Charlie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hears | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Kent | case |
| 3 | Kent | Kent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Charlie | nmod |
| 4 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 blessé | punct |
| 6 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 blessé | nsubj |
| 7 | es | e | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blessé | cop |
| 8 | blessé | blessé | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hears | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 blessé | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 blessé | punct |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 falling | mark |
| 12 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hears | advcl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 falling | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bike | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 falling | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 says | cc |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hears | conj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bless | punct |
| 19 | Bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 says | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 Bless | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bless | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bless | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | Charlie from Kent | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Tu | blessé property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall off | gerund | Charlie from Kent not said here | Tu's bike | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bike=Extent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | present | Charlie from Kent not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bless in a quote | infinitive | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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 should he have answered?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 answered | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | aux |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | should · perfect | Charlie | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Non, je suis plein
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Non | Non | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 je | punct |
| 3 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Non | conj |
| 4 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Non | flat:foreign |
| 5 | plein | plein | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Non | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
À tes souhaits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | À | à | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tes | amod |
| 2 | tes | te | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 souhaits | compound |
| 3 | souhaits | souhait | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Oui, j'ai mal au genou
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oui | Oui | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 au | punct |
| 3 | j'ai | j'ai | X | _ | 5 au | compound |
| 4 | mal | mal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 au | amod |
| 5 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oui | appos |
| 6 | genou | genou | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Oui | dep |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Merci, je n'ai plus faim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merci | Merci | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Merci | punct |
| 3 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Merci | flat:foreign |
| 4 | n'ai | n'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Merci | flat:foreign |
| 5 | plus | plus | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Merci | flat:foreign |
| 6 | faim | faim | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Merci | dep |
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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