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★ A tourist hears «Il fait un froid de canard!» and goes looking for cold ducks. What has he done?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, tourist, Il · What happens: ★, hear, canard, go, look, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 53 «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» 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 tourist hears «Il fait un froid de canard!» and goes looking for cold ducks.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tourist	det
3	tourist	tourist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hears	nsubj
4	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 ★	acl:relcl
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Il	punct
6	Il	Il	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 canard	nsubj
7	fait	fait	X	Foreign=Yes	6 Il	flat:foreign
8	un	un	X	Foreign=Yes	11 canard	compound
9	froid	froid	X	_	11 canard	compound
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 canard	compound
11	canard	canard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hears	ccomp
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 canard	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 canard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 goes	cc
15	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hears	conj
16	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 goes	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 ducks	case
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ducks	amod
19	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looking	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	★	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	hear	present	a tourist						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	canard in a quote		Il						tree rules
4	go	present	a tourist not said here						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	look	gerund	a tourist not said here					for cold ducks	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for duck=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 has he done?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 done	obj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · perfect	Il						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Translated the picture instead of the meaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 picture	det
3	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Translated	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 meaning	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meaning	det
7	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Translated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	translate	participle		the picture				instead the meaning	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient

Option 2

Confused a duck with a goose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Confused	confuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 duck	det
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Confused	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 goose	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 goose	det
6	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Confused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confuse	past		a duck				with a goose	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent duck=Patient with goose=Co-Patient

Option 3

Found the right place for duck spotting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 place	det
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 place	amod
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Found	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 spotting	case
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spotting	compound
7	spotting	spotting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 place	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		the right place				for duck spotting	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for spotting=Beneficiary

Option 4

Understood the saying exactly right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 saying	det
3	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Understood	obj
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 right	advmod
5	right	right	ADV	_	1 Understood	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past		the saying				right property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer saying=Stimulus

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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