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Test 6 · Colours

Ruby says, "Sure that's just mean," when her teacher crosses out the s on marrons. What's the reason?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ruby, that, teacher, reason · What happens: say, be, cross out · To what, where: s, marrons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: Ruby says, "Sure that's just mean," when her teacher crosses out the s on marrons.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct
5	Sure	sure	INTJ	_	9 mean	discourse
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 mean	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 mean	advmod
9	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 crosses	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 crosses	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 teacher	nmod:poss
14	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crosses	nsubj
15	crosses	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 crosses	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 s	det
18	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crosses	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 marrons	case
20	marrons	marron	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crosses	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ruby						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	that					mean property	tree rules
3	cross out	present	Ruby's teacher	the s		marrons			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent s=Patient

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 the reason?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the reason						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Shoes are always singular in French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 singular	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 singular	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 singular	advmod
4	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 French	case
6	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 singular	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

marron never changes, not even in the plural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	marron	marron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changes	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 changes	advmod
3	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 plural	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 plural	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	9 plural	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 plural	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plural	det
9	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	marron						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The s was in the wrong place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 s	det
2	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 place	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	amod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the s			the wrong place			tree rules

Option 4

marron should be brune for shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	marron	marron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 brune	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 brune	cop
4	brune	brune	X	Foreign=Yes	1 marron	flat:foreign
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 shoes	case
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 marron	nmod

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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