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Test 1 · Hello and goodbye: greetings

Zara texts her mum, "is she saluting me lol?" What does salut mean when her penpal says it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zara, penpal · What happens: text, salute, mean, say · To what, where: mum, me, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 4 «Hello and goodbye: greetings» 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: Zara texts her mum, "is she saluting me lol?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 texts	nsubj
2	texts	text	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 texts	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saluting	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 saluting	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saluting	aux
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saluting	nsubj
9	saluting	salute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 texts	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 saluting	obj
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	9 saluting	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 texts	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 texts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	text	present	Zara	Zara's mum					tree rules
2	salute in a quote	present · progressive	Zara	me					vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic

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 does salut mean when her penpal says it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	salut	salut	X	Foreign=Yes	4 mean	dep
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 says	mark
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 penpal	nmod:poss
7	penpal	penpal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support							tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Zara's penpal	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Good evening, madam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 evening	amod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 madam	punct
4	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 evening	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hi, between friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	4 friends	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 friends	punct
3	between	between	ADP	_	4 friends	case
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Please be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Please	please	INTJ	_	3 quiet	discourse
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 quiet	cop
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					quiet property	tree rules

Option 4

I salute you, like a soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 salute	nsubj
2	salute	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 salute	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soldier	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 soldier	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 salute	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	salute	present	I	you				like a soldier	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

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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