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Test 1 · ★ · English words that came from French

Your mate goes, "French and English have nothing in common, bruv." What do you say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: go, have, say · To what, where: French, nothing, common bruv · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 36 «English words that came from French» 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 goes, "French and English have nothing in common, bruv."

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 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 French	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 French	punct
6	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 English	cc
8	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 French	conj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	conj
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 have	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 bruv	case
12	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bruv	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 common	punct
14	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate	French					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have in a quote	present	Your mate not said here	nothing		common bruv			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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 do you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Thousands of English words came from French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 words	case
3	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 French	case
7	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Thousands of English words			French			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from french=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only the word "bonjour" is shared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 word	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shared	nsubj:pass
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bonjour	punct
5	bonjour	bonjour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	appos
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bonjour	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shared	aux:pass
8	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present · passive		the word					tree rules

Option 3

English came from French completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 French	case
4	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	2 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	English			French		completely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from french=Initial_Location

Option 4

He's right, they share no words at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 share	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 share	nsubj
6	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 words	det
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 share	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	share	present	they	no words		all			tree rules

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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