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Test 7 · Hello and goodbye: greetings

Harvey says, "Ah'm gonnae say au revoir ten times, then." ("Gonnae" means going to.) What could he say instead if he meets the class tomorrow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Harvey, Gonnae · What happens: say, mean, go, meet · To what, where: au revoir, class · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: Harvey says, "Ah'm gonnae say au revoir ten times, then."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harvey	Harvey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
5	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 say	discourse
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
7	gonnae	gonnae	X	Foreign=Yes	8 say	dep
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
9	au	au	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 revoir	compound
10	revoir	revoir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 then	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 say	parataxis
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Harvey						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present		au revoir			time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent revoir=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: ("Gonnae" means going to.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Gonnae	punct
3	Gonnae	Gonnae	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Gonnae	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 means	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	6 going	fixed
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Gonnae						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	gerund	Gonnae not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: What could he say instead if he meets the class tomorrow?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 meets	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 meets	nsubj
8	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 class	det
10	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meets	obj
11	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meets	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	Gonnae					instead property	tree rules
2	meet a condition, not said to happen	present	Gonnae	the class			tomorrow		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Co-Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bonsoir !

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bonsoir	Bonsoir	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Bonsoir	punct

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

Option 2

Bonjour !

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bonjour	Bonjour	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Bonjour	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

À demain !

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	À	à	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 demain	amod
2	demain	demain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 demain	punct

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

Option 4

Enchanté !

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enchanté	Enchanté	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Enchanté	punct

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

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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