Test 1 · Numbers 0 to 20

Jacob asks, "Is five really 'sank' like a ship?" What's the answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jacob, answer · What happens: ask, be, sink · To what, where: five · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 6 «Numbers 0 to 20» 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: Jacob asks, "Is five really 'sank' like a ship?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 five	punct
5	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 five	cop
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sank	obl
7	really	really	ADV	_	9 sank	advmod
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 sank	punct
9	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	parataxis
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 sank	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 ship	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ship	det
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asks	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Jacob		like a ship	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present		five		tree rules
3	sink in a quote	past				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 answer?

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	4 answer	det
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, it is "sink", like the kitchen sink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 sink	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sink	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sink	cop
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sink	punct
6	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sink	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sink	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 sink	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sink	det
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sink	compound
12	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sink	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	sink and the kitchen sink					tree rules

Option 2

No, it is "sin-kew", with two parts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 kew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kew	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kew	cop
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 kew	punct
6	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kew	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 kew	punct
8	kew	kew	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 kew	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 parts	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 parts	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 parts	nummod
13	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kew	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	sin kew				with two parts	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, but the q is always fully silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 silent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 silent	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 q	det
5	q	Q	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 silent	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 silent	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 silent	advmod
8	fully	fully	ADV	_	9 silent	advmod
9	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the q					always, fully, silent property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, cinq sounds like "sank", said through the nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sounds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cinq	cinq	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounds	nsubj
4	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 sank	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sank	punct
7	sank	sank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounds	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sank	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sounds	parataxis
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 nose	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nose	det
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	cinq					like sank	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past				the nose			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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