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Test 1 · French compared with English

Your mate goes "French numbers are mad nonsense, sixty-ten, lol." What's fairer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, French numbers · What happens: go, be · To what, where: mad nonsense

This is test 1 of lesson 35 «French compared with English» of the language 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: Your mate goes "French numbers are mad nonsense, sixty-ten, lol."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 nonsense	punct
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 numbers	amod
6	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nonsense	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nonsense	cop
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nonsense	amod
9	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ten	punct
11	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 ten	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 sixty	punct
13	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 nonsense	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ten	punct
15	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 goes	discourse
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	French numbers	mad nonsense					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 fairer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

French has no number 70

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 number	flat

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

Option 2

It's a spelling mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mistake	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
4	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mistake	compound
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's a different system counting in twenties, not a wrong one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 system	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 system	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 system	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 system	amod
5	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 system	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 twenties	case
8	twenties	twenty	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 counting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 one	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 system	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a different system					tree rules
2	count	gerund	a different system not said here			twenties			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

He's right, French people just can't count properly past sixty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 count	punct
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 count	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 count	advmod
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 count	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 count	advmod
10	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	parataxis
11	properly	properly	ADV	_	10 count	advmod
12	past	past	ADV	_	13 sixty	advmod
13	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	not count	can	French people	sixty				properly property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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