--- title: ★★★ Mia's birthday is le premier mars. Her brother's is exactly one… — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Mia's birthday is le premier mars. Her brother's is exactly one week later. How do you say his birthday? 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How do you say his birthday? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★, you · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** le premier mars, one week, birthday · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 11 «Dates and birthdays» of the French 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Mia's birthday is le premier mars. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t11:1 # text = ★★★ Mia's birthday is le premier mars. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 premier premier NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 mars mar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | ★ | le premier mars | | | | | 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:* Her brother's is exactly one week later. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t11:2 # text = Her brother's is exactly one week later. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | ★'s brother's one week | | | | exactly, late *property* | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* How do you say his birthday? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t11:3 # text = How do you say his birthday? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | you | Mia's birthday | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent birthday=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} le huit mars ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t11:o1:1 # text = le huit mars 1 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 2 flat:foreign _ _ 2 huit huit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 mars mars X FW Foreign=Yes 2 dep _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} le premier mars ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t11:o2:1 # text = le premier mars 1 le le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 premier premier NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 mars mars PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} le neuf mars ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t11:o3:1 # text = le neuf mars 1 le le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 neuf neuf NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 mars mars PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} le sept mars ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t11:o4:1 # text = le sept mars 1 le le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sept sept NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 mars mars PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` 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. 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