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Test 10 · French compared with English

Max's mate says "only English has silent letters, French says everything." What shows he's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, only English, French · What happens: say, have, show, be · To what, where: silent letters, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 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: Max's mate says "only English has silent letters, French says everything."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Max	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 English	amod
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
9	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 letters	amod
10	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
12	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 has	conj
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 says	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Max's mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	only English	silent letters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	French	everything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent everything=Topic

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 shows he's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrong	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	French					wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

"Ils parlent" sounds like "eel parl"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 parlent	punct
2	Ils	Ils	X	Foreign=Yes	3 parlent	compound
3	parlent	parlent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 parlent	punct
5	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 parl	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 parl	punct
8	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 parl	compound
9	parl	parl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 parl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	Ils parlent					like eel parl	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

English has no silent letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	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	5 letters	det
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 letters	amod
5	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

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

Option 3

French says every letter twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 letter	det
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 says	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	French	every letter				twice property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent letter=Topic

Option 4

French has no letters

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 letters	det
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

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