Exam question 3 · Days of the week and months

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the month of août.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 10 «Days of the week and months» of the French course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 month	det
11	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 août	case
13	août	août	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 month	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here		month		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is the sixth month and is pronounced "OWT"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 month	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 month	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 month	det
4	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 month	amod
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pronounced	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pronounced	aux:pass
8	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 month	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 OWT	punct
10	OWT	OWT	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pronounced	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 OWT	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the sixth month					tree rules
2	pronounce	present · passive		OWT					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: owt=Result

Option 2

It is the ninth month and is pronounced "AH-oo"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 month	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 month	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 month	det
4	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 month	amod
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pronounced	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pronounced	aux:pass
8	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 month	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 oo	punct
10	AH	ah	INTJ	_	12 oo	discourse
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 AH	punct
12	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pronounced	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 oo	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the ninth month					tree rules
2	pronounce	present · passive		oo					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: oo=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is the eighth month and is pronounced "OOT" or "OO"

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 month	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 month	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 month	det
4	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 month	amod
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pronounced	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pronounced	aux:pass
8	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 month	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 OOT	punct
10	OOT	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pronounced	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 OOT	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 OO	cc
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 OO	punct
14	OO	OO	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 OOT	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 OOT	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the eighth month					tree rules
2	pronounce	present · passive		OOT or OO					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: oot=Theme

Option 4

It is the seventh month and is pronounced "a-OOT"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 month	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 month	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 month	det
4	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 month	amod
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pronounced	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pronounced	aux:pass
8	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 month	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 OOT	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 OOT	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 a	punct
12	OOT	oot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pronounced	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 OOT	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the seventh month					tree rules
2	pronounce	present · passive		a OOT					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: oot=Theme

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