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Test 10 · Hello and goodbye: greetings

A cartoon hero walks into a Paris shop at 10 in the morning and says "Bonne nuit !" to the baker. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon hero · What happens: walk, say, be · To what, where: Paris shop, baker · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 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: A cartoon hero walks into a Paris shop at 10 in the morning and says "Bonne nuit !" to the baker.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hero	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hero	compound
3	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walks	nsubj
4	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 shop	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shop	det
7	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shop	compound
8	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walks	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 10	case
10	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 walks	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walks	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 says	cc
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 walks	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 nuit	punct
17	Bonne	bonne	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nuit	compound
18	nuit	nuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 says	ccomp
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 nuit	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 nuit	punct
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 baker	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 baker	det
23	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 says	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	a cartoon hero				morning	into a Paris shop result; at 10	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into shop=Result
2	say speech: assert	present	a cartoon hero not said here		the baker				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to baker=Recipient

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's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1

He should say au revoir when he comes in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	au	au	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 revoir	compound
5	revoir	revoir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 comes	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	advcl
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	He	au revoir					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent revoir=Topic
2	come in	present	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He should say bonjour; bonne nuit is for bedtime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bonjour	bonjour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 bedtime	punct
6	bonne	bonne	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nuit	compound
7	nuit	nuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bedtime	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bedtime	cop
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 bedtime	case
10	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	He	bonjour					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bonjour=Topic
2	is	present	bonne nuit					for bedtime	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing, that's how you say hello in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 how	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 how	cop
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 say	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
8	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 morning	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					how property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	you	hello			morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

Option 4

He should say salut, because bakers are friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	salut	salut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 friends	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 friends	mark
7	bakers	baker	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 friends	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 friends	cop
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	He	salut					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent salut=Topic
2	is a	present	bakers	friends					tree rules

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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