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Test 2 · French compared with English

A Paris tourist laughs at a Quebec boy saying "C'est l'fun". What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Paris tourist, Quebec boy · What happens: laugh, say, be · To what, where: C'est l'fun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: A Paris tourist laughs at a Quebec boy saying "C'est l'fun".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tourist	det
2	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tourist	compound
3	tourist	tourist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughs	nsubj
4	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 boy	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 boy	compound
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughs	obl
9	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 boy	acl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 l'fun	punct
11	C'est	C'est	X	Foreign=Yes	12 l'fun	compound
12	l'fun	l'fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saying	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 l'fun	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	a Paris tourist					at a Quebec boy	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a Quebec boy not said here	C'est l'fun					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent l'fun=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'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 · ← Mova's choice

Quebec people speak English, not French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 people	compound
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 speak	nsubj
3	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 speak	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 French	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 French	advmod
7	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 speak	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	Quebec people	English					tree rules

Option 2

Only Paris French is correct, and Quebec French is a mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Paris	advmod
2	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 correct	nsubj
3	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Paris	flat
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 correct	cop
5	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mistake	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mistake	cc
8	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 French	compound
9	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mistake	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mistake	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mistake	det
12	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 correct	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Paris					correct property	tree rules
2	is a	present	Quebec French	a mistake					tree rules

Option 3

It's a typo

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	4 typo	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 typo	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 typo	det
4	typo	typo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Quebec French is a real variety with its own expressions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 French	compound
2	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 variety	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 variety	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 variety	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 variety	amod
6	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 expressions	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 expressions	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 expressions	amod
10	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 variety	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Quebec French	a real variety				with variety's own expressions	tree rules

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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