Test 9 · French compared with English

Your brother says "English has only like five French words." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, English · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: five French words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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 brother says "English has only like five French words."

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
5	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	only	only	ADV	_	11 words	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 words	case
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 words	nummod
10	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 words	amod
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	English	five French words					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

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

All English words are French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 words	det
2	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 French	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 French	cop
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all English words					french property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

English has many French words, especially in food, law and the army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 food	punct
7	especially	especially	ADV	_	9 food	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 food	case
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 words	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 law	punct
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 food	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 army	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 army	det
14	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	English	many French words					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

Option 3

He's right, only five, and they're all the names of foods like croissant

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 five	punct
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 five	advmod
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 right	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 names	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 names	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 names	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 names	cop
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 names	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 names	det
13	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 foods	case
15	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 names	nmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 croissant	case
17	croissant	croissant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 foods	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					five obl; right property	tree rules
2	is a	present	they	all names				of foods like croissant	tree rules

Option 4

English has no French words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 words	det
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	English	no French words					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

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