Test 5 · French compared with English
Your cousin looks for a "librairie" in Paris to borrow a book for free. What will he find?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: look, borrow, find · To what, where: Paris, book
This is test 5 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 cousin looks for a "librairie" in Paris to borrow a book for free.
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 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 librairie | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 librairie | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 librairie | punct |
| 7 | librairie | librairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | obl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 librairie | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Paris | case |
| 10 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 borrow | mark |
| 12 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looks | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 book | det |
| 14 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 borrow | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 free | case |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 borrow | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Your cousin | Paris | for a librairie | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for librairie=Theme in paris=Location | |||
| 2 | borrow | to-infinitive | Your cousin not said here | a book | for free | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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: What will he find?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 find | obj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | cousin | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
A bakery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bakery | det |
| 2 | bakery | bakery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A bookshop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bookshop | det |
| 2 | bookshop | bookshop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A library
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 library | det |
| 2 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A pharmacy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pharmacy | det |
| 2 | pharmacy | pharmacy | 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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