Test 9 · ★ · Numbers 21 to 69
Ella says counting backwards is "heaps hard". What number comes right before quarante-sept?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, heaps, number · What happens: say, count, be, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Ella says counting backwards is "heaps hard".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hard | csubj |
| 4 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 3 counting | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hard | cop |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hard | punct |
| 7 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hard | nsubj |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hard | punct |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ella | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | count | gerund | backwards property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | heaps | hard property | 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 number comes right before quarante-sept?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 comes | obj |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 sept | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 sept | case |
| 6 | quarante | quarante | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 sept | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sept | punct |
| 8 | sept | sept | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | number | before quarante sept | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
quarante-huit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarante | quarante | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 huit | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 quarante | punct |
| 3 | huit | huit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
trente-six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trente | trente | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 six | flat:foreign |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 six | punct |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
quarante-six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarante | quarante | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 six | punct |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 quarante | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
quatorze-six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quatorze | quatorze | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 six | punct |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 quatorze | appos |
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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