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Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★

★★★ Jacob from Cardiff reads "Défense de marcher sur la pelouse" and goes, "Defence of marching? Is there an army, butt?" (butt = mate, in Wales) What does the sign really say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jacob, Défense, Defence, army, sign · What happens: read, pelouse, go, march, be, say · To what, where: Defence, butt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» 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: ★★★ Jacob from Cardiff reads "Défense de marcher sur la pelouse" and goes, "Defence of marching?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Jacob	nmod:desc
4	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reads	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Cardiff	case
6	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Jacob	nmod
7	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Défense	punct
9	Défense	Défense	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 pelouse	nsubj
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 Défense	flat:foreign
11	marcher	marcher	X	Foreign=Yes	14 pelouse	compound
12	sur	sur	X	Foreign=Yes	14 pelouse	compound
13	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	14 pelouse	compound
14	pelouse	pelouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reads	ccomp
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 pelouse	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 goes	cc
17	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reads	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Defence	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Defence	punct
20	Defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goes	obl
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 marching	mark
22	marching	march	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 Defence	acl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Jacob ★ ★ ★ from Cardiff						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pelouse in a quote		Défense						tree rules
3	go	present	Jacob ★ ★ ★ from Cardiff not said here	Defence					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	march in a quote	gerund	Defence not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 there an army, butt?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	1 Is	expl
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 army	det
4	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Is	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 butt	punct
6	butt	butt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 army	conj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	a army and butt			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: (butt = mate, in Wales) What does the sign really say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 butt	punct
2	butt	butt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 butt	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Wales	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Wales	case
7	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 butt	conj
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 butt	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 say	obj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sign	det
12	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	nsubj
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 say	advmod
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 butt	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 butt	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Soldiers march on the lawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 march	nsubj
2	march	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 lawn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lawn	det
5	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 march	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	present	Soldiers			the lawn			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lawn=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Don't walk on the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 walk	advmod
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	imperative · do-support	you not said here			the grass			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Trajectory

Option 3

Protect the marching band

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 band	det
3	marching	marching	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 band	compound
4	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	imperative	you not said here	the marching band					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Beneficiary

Option 4

Walk only on the lawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 lawn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lawn	det
5	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here			the lawn			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lawn=Trajectory

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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