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Test 5 · Hello and goodbye: greetings

Lucas tells his dad, "Mate, she went for two kisses, I nearly headbutted her!" What's the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lucas, she, best advice · What happens: tell, go, headbutt, be · To what, where: dad, her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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: Lucas tells his dad, "Mate, she went for two kisses, I nearly headbutted her!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lucas	Lucas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Mate	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Mate	punct
7	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dad	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 kisses	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 kisses	nummod
13	kisses	kiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 headbutted	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 headbutted	nsubj
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	17 headbutted	advmod
17	headbutted	headbutt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 headbutted	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Lucas		Lucas's dad and Mate				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	past	she					for two kisses	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for kiss=Beneficiary
3	headbutt in a quote	past	Lucas	her = she				nearly property	tree rules

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 the best advice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 advice	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 advice	amod
5	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best advice						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Shake hands very hard so they don't try again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shake	obj
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Shake	advmod
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 try	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 try	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 try	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 try	advmod
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Shake	advcl
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 try	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	hands				hard property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	not try	present · do-support	hands = hand				again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Watch the other person and follow, or just smile and say bonjour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 person	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 person	amod
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 follow	cc
6	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 smile	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 smile	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 smile	advmod
10	smile	smile	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	conj
13	bonjour	bonjour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	the other person					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	follow	infinitive	you not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	smile	infinitive	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	bonjour					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bonjour=Topic

Option 3

Always do four kisses, that's the rule everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	alway	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 kisses	nummod
4	kisses	kiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rule	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 rule	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rule	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rule	det
9	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kisses	appos
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 rule	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Always	four kisses					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Eventuality
2	is a	present	that	the rule				everywhere property	tree rules

Option 4

Always turn away, la bise is only for grown-ups in love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 turn	advmod
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 turn	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ups	punct
5	la	la	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bise	det
6	bise	bise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ups	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ups	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	12 ups	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 ups	case
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ups	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 grown	punct
12	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 love	case
14	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ups	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn away	imperative	you not said here					always, away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	la bise			love		for grown ups	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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