Test 4 · French compared with English
Your gran from Somerset says "gurt lush, that French bread, proper job." ("Gurt" means very, "lush" means lovely.) Which French word means bread?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gran, Gurt, lush, French word · What happens: say, mean, word · To what, where: bread · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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 gran from Somerset says "gurt lush, that French bread, proper job."
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 gran | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Somerset | case |
| 4 | Somerset | Somerset | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gran | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lush | punct |
| 7 | gurt | gurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lush | amod |
| 8 | lush | lush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bread | punct |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 bread | det |
| 11 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bread | amod |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lush | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 job | punct |
| 14 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 job | amod |
| 15 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lush | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lush | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lush | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your gran from Somerset | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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: ("Gurt" means very, "lush" means lovely.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Gurt | punct |
| 3 | Gurt | Gurt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Gurt | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lush | punct |
| 9 | lush | lush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lush | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | conj |
| 12 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Gurt | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | lush | lovely property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Which French word means bread?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 word | nsubj |
| 2 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | word | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | mean | present | French word | bread | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Librairie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Librairie | Librairie | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Pain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Raisin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raisin | raisin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Coin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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