--- title: Mason says, "So many little words, wicked hard." ("Wicked" means ver… — Food and drink · tree and pragmatics description: Mason says, "So many little words, wicked hard." ("Wicked" means very.) Which is right? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 18 «Food and drink» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/18-food-and-drink/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [Food and drink](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/18-food-and-drink/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Food and drink Mason says, "So many little words, wicked hard." ("Wicked" means very.) Which is right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mason, Wicked · **What happens:** say, mean, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 18 «Food and drink» 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/18-food-and-drink/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Mason says, "So many little words, wicked hard." ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t10:1 # text = Mason says, "So many little words, wicked hard." 1 Mason Mason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 So so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 11 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mason | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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:* ("Wicked" means very.) ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t10:2 # text = ("Wicked" means very.) 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Wicked | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | *Sentence 3:* Which is right? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t10:3 # text = Which is right? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Je n'aime pas carottes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t10:o1:1 # text = Je n'aime pas carottes. 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 4 nsubj _ _ 2 n'aime n'aime X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 pas pas X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 carottes carotte NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Je n'aime pas les carottes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t10:o2:1 # text = Je n'aime pas les carottes. 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 5 nsubj _ _ 2 n'aime n'aime X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 pas pas X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 les les X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 5 carottes carotte NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Je n'aime pas de les carottes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t10:o3:1 # text = Je n'aime pas de les carottes. 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 6 nsubj _ _ 2 n'aime n'aime X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 pas pas X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 5 les les X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 6 carottes carotte NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Je n'aime pas des carottes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t10:o4:1 # text = Je n'aime pas des carottes. 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 5 nsubj _ _ 2 n'aime n'aime X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 pas pas X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 des des X FW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 5 carottes carotte NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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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