Exam question 2 · Dates and birthdays

Identify the correct French rendering of the year 2026.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, render · To what, where: correct French rendering, year

This is exam question 2 of lesson 11 «Dates and birthdays» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rendering	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rendering	amod
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rendering	amod
5	rendering	rendering	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rendering	nmod
9	2026	2026	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 year	flat
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the correct French rendering of the year					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rendering=Theme
2	render			the year					nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

deux milles vingt-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deux	deux	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 milles	nsubj
2	milles	mille	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vingt	vingt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 milles	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 six	punct
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 vingt	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mille	present	deux	vingt					tree rules

Option 2

deux cent vingt-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deux	deux	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cent	compound
2	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vingt	compound
3	vingt	vingt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 six	punct
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 vingt	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

deux mille vingt-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deux	deux	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	mille	mille	X	Foreign=Yes	1 deux	flat:foreign
3	vingt	vingt	X	Foreign=Yes	1 deux	flat:foreign
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 six	punct
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 deux	flat:foreign

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

vingt vingt-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	vingt	vingt	X	Foreign=Yes	2 vingt	compound
2	vingt	vingt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 six	punct
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 vingt	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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