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Test 5 · ★ · Numbers 21 to 69

Olivia in Chicago reads quarante-quatre with "kwah" sounds. Her teacher says, "Close, but drop the w's." Why?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Olivia, kwah, teacher · What happens: read, sound, say, drop · To what, where: quarante quatre, w · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Olivia in Chicago reads quarante-quatre with "kwah" sounds.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Olivia	Olivia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reads	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Chicago	case
3	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Olivia	nmod
4	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quarante	quarante	X	Foreign=Yes	7 quatre	flat:foreign
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 quatre	punct
7	quatre	quatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reads	obj
8	with	with	SCONJ	_	12 sounds	mark
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 kwah	punct
10	kwah	kwah	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sounds	nsubj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 kwah	punct
12	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 quatre	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Olivia in Chicago	quarante quatre					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quatre=Topic
2	sound	present	kwah						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: Her teacher says, "Close, but drop the w's."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Close	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Close	punct
6	Close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drop	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 drop	cc
9	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 w	det
11	w	w	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drop	obj
12	's	's	PART	_	11 w	case
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 drop	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 drop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kwah's teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drop in a quote	infinitive		the w					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w=Theme

Sentence 3: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

French w is said like v

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 w	amod
2	w	w	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 v	case
6	v	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		French w				like v	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

Option 2

French quarante has no q

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
2	quarante	quarante	X	Foreign=Yes	1 French	dep
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 q	det
5	q	Q	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	French	no q					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent q=Patient

Option 3

French q is always silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 q	amod
2	q	Q	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 silent	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 silent	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 silent	advmod
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

French qu says just "k"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 k	amod
2	qu	qu	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	6 k	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 k	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 k	advmod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 k	punct
6	k	k	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 k	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	qu	French k					tree rules

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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