Test 12 · ★ · English words that came from French
★★★ Beef, pork and mutton come from bœuf, porc and mouton. Veal comes from French veau. Which English animal word did the farmers keep for it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★ Beef, Veal, English animal word, farmers · What happens: come, do, keep · To what, where: bœuf, French veau
This is test 12 · ★ 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: ★★★ Beef, pork and mutton come from bœuf, porc and mouton.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Beef | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Beef | compound |
| 4 | Beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pork | punct |
| 6 | pork | pork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Beef | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mutton | cc |
| 8 | mutton | mutton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Beef | conj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 bœuf | case |
| 11 | bœuf | bœuf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 porc | punct |
| 13 | porc | porc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bœuf | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mouton | cc |
| 15 | mouton | mouton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bœuf | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | ★ ★ Beef and pork and mutton | bœuf and porc and mouton | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bœuf=Initial_Location |
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: Veal comes from French veau.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Veal | veal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 veau | case |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 veau | amod |
| 5 | veau | veau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Veal | French veau | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from veau=Initial_Location |
Sentence 3: Which English animal word did the farmers keep for it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 did | obj |
| 2 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 word | compound |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | compound |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 farmers | det |
| 7 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 keep | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | English animal word | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | the farmers | for word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
calf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
lamb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
goat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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