Test 6 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French
Jake goes "Sorry, bruv!" on a bus in Lille. ("Bruv" means mate.) What would a French kid say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, Bruv, French kid · What happens: go, mean, say · To what, where: mate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Jake goes "Sorry, bruv!" on a bus in Lille.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sorry | punct |
| 4 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 2 goes | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruv | punct |
| 6 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Sorry | vocative |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sorry | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sorry | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bus | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bus | det |
| 11 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Sorry | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Lille | case |
| 13 | Lille | Lille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bus | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Jake | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: ("Bruv" means mate.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bruv | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Bruv | mate | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic |
Sentence 3: What would a French kid say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kid | amod |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | a French kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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 2
Merci !
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merci | Merci | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Merci | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Salut !
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salut | Salut | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Salut | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Pardon !
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pardon | 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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