Test 8 · French compared with English
A cartoon French kid says "Je suis faim!" for "I'm hungry". What's the usual French?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon French kid, usual French · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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 cartoon French kid says "Je suis faim!" for "I'm hungry".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kid | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kid | compound |
| 3 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kid | amod |
| 4 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Je | punct |
| 7 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 says | dep |
| 8 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Je | flat:foreign |
| 9 | faim | faim | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Je | flat:foreign |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hungry | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 hungry | mark |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hungry | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hungry | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hungry | cop |
| 16 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | ccomp |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hungry | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cartoon French kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | a cartoon French kid = kid | hungry property | tree rules |
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 the usual French?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 French | det |
| 4 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 French | amod |
| 5 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the usual French | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
J'ai froid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | _ | 2 froid | compound |
| 2 | froid | froid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Je suis faim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | faim | faim | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
J'ai faim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | _ | 2 faim | compound |
| 2 | faim | faim | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Je faim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | faim | faim | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
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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