--- title: Ella says counting backwards is "heaps hard". What number comes righ… — Numbers 21 to 69 · tree and pragmatics description: Ella says counting backwards is "heaps hard". What number comes right before quarante-sept? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 7 «Numbers 21 to 69» 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/7-numbers-21-to-69/t9/) [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/) / [Numbers 21 to 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Numbers 21 to 69 Ella says counting backwards is "heaps hard". What number comes right before quarante-sept? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ella, heaps, number · **What happens:** say, count, be, come · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 7 «Numbers 21 to 69» 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/7-numbers-21-to-69/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ella says counting backwards is "heaps hard". ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t9:1 # text = Ella says counting backwards is "heaps hard". 1 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 4 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ella | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **count** | gerund | | | | | | backwards *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | heaps | | | | | hard *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 number comes right before quarante-sept? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t9:2 # text = What number comes right before quarante-sept? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 obj _ _ 2 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 right right ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 5 before before ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 quarante quarante X FW Foreign=Yes 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 sept sept NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | number | | | | before quarante sept | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} quarante-huit ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t9:o1:1 # text = quarante-huit 1 quarante quarante X FW Foreign=Yes 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 huit huit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} trente-six ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t9:o2:1 # text = trente-six 1 trente trente X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} quarante-six ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t9:o3:1 # text = quarante-six 1 quarante quarante X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} quatorze-six ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t9:o4:1 # text = quatorze-six 1 quatorze quatorze NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 appos _ _ ``` 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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