Test 8 · Numbers 0 to 20

Skye's brother says, "Yeah nah, it's 'zay-ro', isn't it?" ("Yeah nah" means no.) Who's right about zéro?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, it, no. · What happens: say, be, not be, mean · To what, where: zay ro, ro, no. · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Skye's brother says, "Yeah nah, it's 'zay-ro', isn't it?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skye	Skye	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Skye	case
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 ro	punct
7	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 nah	discourse
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	15 ro	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nah	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ro	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ro	cop
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 ro	punct
13	zay	zay	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ro	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 zay	punct
15	ro	ro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
16	',	',	PUNCT	_	15 ro	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 it	cop
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 it	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ro	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 ro	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 ro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Skye's brother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	it	zay ro	tree rules
3	not is a in a quote	present		ro	tree rules

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: ("Yeah nah" means no.) Who's right about zéro?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 nah	punct
3	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nah	discourse
4	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 means	discourse
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 nah	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	6 means	obj
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 no.	punct
9	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 right	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 no.	acl:relcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 zéro	case
13	zéro	zéro	X	Foreign=Yes	11 right	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present		no.					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no.=Topic
2	is	present	no.					about zéro; right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Skye: it's "ZEE-ro", as in English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skye	Skye	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 ro	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ro	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ro	cop
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 ro	punct
6	ZEE	zee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ro	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ro	punct
8	ro	ro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skye	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 ro	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 English	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 English	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 English	case
13	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Skye	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	ZEE ro					tree rules

Option 2

Neither: it's "ZAIR-oh"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 ZAIR	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ZAIR	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ZAIR	cop
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 ZAIR	punct
6	ZAIR	ZAIR	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 oh	punct
8	oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 ZAIR	discourse
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 oh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	ZAIR				neither property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The brother: é says "ay"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
4	é	é	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ay	punct
7	ay	ay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the brother	ay					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ay=Topic

Option 4

Both: it doesn't matter at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 matter	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 matter	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matter	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 matter	advmod
6	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Both			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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