Test 4 · ★ · Numbers 21 to 69
A cartoon English boy in Paris says "Je suis dix!" to show he is ten. What should he say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon English boy, boy · What happens: say, show, be · To what, where: Je, ten · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 7 «Numbers 21 to 69» 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: A cartoon English boy in Paris says "Je suis dix!" to show he is ten.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | compound |
| 3 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | compound |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Paris | case |
| 6 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | nmod |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Je | punct |
| 9 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Je | flat:foreign |
| 11 | dix | dix | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Je | flat:foreign |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 Je | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Je | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 show | mark |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | advcl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ten | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ten | cop |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 show | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cartoon English boy in Paris | Je | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent je=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | a cartoon English boy in Paris not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | boy | ten | 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: What should he say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
J'ai dix.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | _ | 2 dix | compound |
| 2 | dix | dix | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dix | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Je dix ans.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 ans | compound |
| 2 | dix | dix | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ans | nummod |
| 3 | ans | an | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ans | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
J'ai dix ans.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | _ | 3 ans | compound |
| 2 | dix | dix | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ans | nummod |
| 3 | ans | an | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ans | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Je suis dix ans.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 suis | nsubj |
| 2 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 ans | nsubj |
| 3 | dix | dix | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ans | nummod |
| 4 | ans | an | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ans | 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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