Test 9 · ★★ · False friends
★★ Max from Manchester says "Je suis plein !" after lunch and his host laughs. What would sound natural?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, host · What happens: say, laugh, sound · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: ★★ Max from Manchester says "Je suis plein !" after lunch and his host laughs.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 3 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Manchester | case |
| 5 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Max | nmod |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Je | punct |
| 8 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 says | dep |
| 9 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 Je | flat:foreign |
| 10 | plein | plein | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 Je | flat:foreign |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lunch | punct |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 lunch | case |
| 14 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 laughs | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 host | nmod:poss |
| 17 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laughs | nsubj |
| 18 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lunch | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | laugh | present | ★'s host | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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: What would sound natural?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 sound | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sound | aux |
| 3 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sound | xcomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sound | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | would | natural property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Je suis vide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 vide | dep |
| 2 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | vide | vide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Je n'ai plus faim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | n'ai | n'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | plus | plus | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | faim | faim | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
J'ai encore très faim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | encore | encore | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | très | très | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 4 | faim | faim | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Je suis faim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | faim | faim | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
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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