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Test 5 · Colours

Tilly asks, "Wait, it's a whole different word?" about blanche. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tilly, it · What happens: ask, wait, be · To what, where: whole different word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 9 «Colours» 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: Tilly asks, "Wait, it's a whole different word?" about blanche.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tilly	Tilly	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Wait	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Wait	punct
5	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asks	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 word	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 word	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 word	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 word	amod
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 word	amod
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Wait	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Wait	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Wait	punct
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 blanche	case
16	blanche	blanche	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Wait	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Tilly						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	Tilly not said here					about blanche	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about blanche=Location
3	is a in a quote	present	it	a whole different word					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's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

blanche means pink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blanche	blanche	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	blanche	pink					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pink=Topic

Option 2

blanche is only used for snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blanche	blanche	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 snow	case
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		blanche				for snow	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for snow=Eventuality

Option 3

She is wrong: it is blance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 blance	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 blance	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 blance	cop
7	blance	blance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					wrong property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	blance					tree rules

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

blanc changes more than just adding e: blanche

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blanc	blanc	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 changes	obj
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 adding	mark
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 adding	advmod
6	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 more	advcl
7	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adding	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 blanche	punct
9	blanche	blanche	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	blanc	more					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
2	add speech: assert	gerund	blanc not said here	e					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Patient

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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