Test 12 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French
★★★ Max writes three sentences. Which one is correct?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, one · What happens: write, be · To what, where: three sentences
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 5 «Tu or vous? Manners in French» 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: ★★★ Max writes three sentences.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 writes | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 5 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sentences | nummod |
| 7 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 writes | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | ★ | three sentences | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme |
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: Which one is correct?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 correct | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 correct | cop |
| 4 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 correct | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which one | correct property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Monsieur, s'il te plaît !
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monsieur | monsieur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plaît | punct |
| 3 | s'il | s'il | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plaît | compound |
| 4 | te | te | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plaît | amod |
| 5 | plaît | plaît | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Monsieur | conj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Monsieur | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Madame, tu veux un café ?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madame | madame | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 café | punct |
| 3 | tu | tu | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 café | nsubj |
| 4 | veux | veux | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 café | dep |
| 5 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 café | compound |
| 6 | café | café | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Madame | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Madame | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | café | tu | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Maman, tu es fatiguée ?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maman | Maman | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Maman | punct |
| 3 | tu | tu | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Maman | flat:foreign |
| 4 | es | es | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Maman | dep |
| 5 | fatiguée | fatiguée | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Maman | flat:foreign |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Maman | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Les amis, tu voulez jouer ?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Les | les | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 amis | det |
| 2 | amis | ami | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 amis | punct |
| 4 | tu | tu | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 amis | appos |
| 5 | voulez | voulez | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 tu | flat:foreign |
| 6 | jouer | jouer | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 tu | flat:foreign |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 amis | 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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