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Test 7 · French compared with English

Your mate writes "un rouge voiture" for "a red car". What would a French person say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, French person · What happens: write, say · To what, where: un rouge voiture · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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 writes "un rouge voiture" for "a red car".

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 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 voiture	punct
5	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 voiture	compound
6	rouge	rouge	X	Foreign=Yes	7 voiture	compound
7	voiture	voiture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 voiture	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 car	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 car	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 car	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 car	amod
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 car	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Your mate	un rouge voiture				for a red car	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent voiture=Result for car=Beneficiary

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 would a French person say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Une rouge voiture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Une	une	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 voiture	det
2	rouge	rouge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voiture	compound
3	voiture	voiture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Rouge une voiture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rouge	Rouge	X	Foreign=Yes	3 voiture	compound
2	une	une	X	_	3 voiture	compound
3	voiture	voiture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Une voiture rouge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Une	Une	X	_	2 voiture	compound
2	voiture	voiture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rouge	compound
3	rouge	rouge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Le rouge voiture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Le	le	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 voiture	det
2	rouge	rouge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voiture	compound
3	voiture	voiture	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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