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Test 8 · Hello and goodbye: greetings

Sienna whispers, "Is she doing magic?" when a gran says "Enchantée !" What did the gran mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sienna, gran · What happens: whisper, do, say, mean · To what, where: magic, Enchantée · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Sienna whispers, "Is she doing magic?" when a gran says "Enchantée !"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sienna	Sienna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 whispers	nsubj
2	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 whispers	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 whispers	punct
5	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	aux
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 doing	nsubj
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 whispers	parataxis
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 says	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 gran	det
13	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whispers	advcl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Enchantée	punct
16	Enchantée	Enchantée	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 says	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Enchantée	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Enchantée	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: ask	present	Sienna						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	present · progressive	Sienna	magic					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present	a gran	Enchantée					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent enchantée=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 did the gran mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gran	det
4	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	the gran						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Pleased to meet you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pleased	please	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 meet	mark
3	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pleased	xcomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 meet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	please	participle							tree rules
2	meet	to-infinitive		you					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Goodbye, see you soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Goodbye	punct
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	you				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 3

I'm very tired today

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	4 tired	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tired	obl:unmarked

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

Option 4

I'm putting a spell on you

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	3 putting	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 putting	aux
3	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 putting	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 putting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present · progressive	I	a spell				on you	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on you=Destination

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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