Test 2 · ★ · English words that came from French

Liam from Dublin goes, "Sure the cow stayed English and the dinner went French?" Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Liam, cow, dinner · What happens: go, stay, be · To what, where: English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Liam from Dublin goes, "Sure the cow stayed English and the dinner went French?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Dublin	case
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Liam	nmod
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 stayed	punct
7	Sure	sure	INTJ	_	10 stayed	discourse
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stayed	nsubj
10	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 goes	parataxis
11	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 stayed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dinner	det
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stayed	conj
16	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 went	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	Liam from Dublin			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stay in a quote	past	the cow	English		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme english=Location
3	go in a quote	past	the dinner		french property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	dinner					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes: the animal kept its English name, the meat got a French one

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 kept	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
7	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 name	amod
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meat	det
11	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	the animal	animal's English name	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
2	get	past	the meat	a French one	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	name		animal		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

No: both words are English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 English	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 English	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 English	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 English	cop
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	both words	no English					tree rules

Option 3

No: both words are French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 French	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 French	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 French	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 French	cop
6	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	both words					french property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes: but only in Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Ireland	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Ireland	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Ireland	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Ireland	case
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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