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Test 7 · Colours

A French boy hears Lucas say "John" and hands him his friend Jean. Everyone loses it. ("Loses it" means laughs a lot.) What did Lucas want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: French boy, Lucas, Everyone, Loses · What happens: hear, say, hand, lose, mean, laugh · To what, where: John, friend, lot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: A French boy hears Lucas say "John" and hands him his friend Jean.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hears	nsubj
4	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Lucas	Lucas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hears	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 John	punct
8	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 John	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hands	cc
11	hands	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hands	iobj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friend	nmod:poss
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hands	iobj
15	Jean	Jean	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 friend	appos
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	a French boy						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	Lucas	John					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent john=Topic
3	hand	present			Lucas's friend				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination friend=Theme

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: Everyone loses it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loses	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Everyone	friend					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Sentence 3: ("Loses it" means laughs a lot.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Loses	punct
3	Loses	lose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 means	nsubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 Loses	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Loses	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lot	det
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laughs	obl:unmarked
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Loses						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	laugh	present		a lot					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 4: What did Lucas want?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	Lucas	Lucas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Lucas						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The yellow pencil, jaune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pencil	det
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pencil	amod
3	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pencil	punct
5	jaune	jaune	NOUN	Foreign=Yes	3 pencil	conj

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

Option 2

The pencil of a boy called John

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pencil	det
2	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 boy	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pencil	nmod
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 boy	acl
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a boy not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A brown pencil, marron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pencil	det
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pencil	amod
3	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 marron	punct
5	marron	marron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pencil	conj

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

Option 4

A white pencil, blanc

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pencil	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pencil	amod
3	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blanc	punct
5	blanc	blanc	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pencil	conj

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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