Test 11 · ★ · English words that came from French

What would happen if you said "déjà vu" in English with a hard English j, "day-ja voo"?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, say, déjà · To what, where: vu, English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 déjà	punct
8	déjà	déjà	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
9	vu	vu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 déjà	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 vu	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 English	case
12	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 déjà	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 j	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 j	det
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 j	amod
16	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 j	compound
17	j	J	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 déjà	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 voo	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 voo	punct
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 voo	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
22	ja	ja	X	_	23 voo	compound
23	voo	voo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 j	appos
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 voo	punct
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	déjà in a quote	past		vu	English	with a hard English j	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.

The options

Option 1

It would mean "never seen"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mean	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not see in a quote	participle							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nobody would understand at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 understand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	Nobody			all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

People would understand, but the French says a soft zh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 says	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 French	det
7	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 zh	det
10	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 zh	amod
11	zh	zh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	People						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	the French	a soft zh					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent zh=Topic

Option 4

It would sound like a rude word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 word	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	It					like a rude word	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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