Exam question 2 · Weather and seasons

Identify the correct expression of the sensation of personal coldness.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, sense · To what, where: correct expression, personal coldness

This is exam question 2 of lesson 13 «Weather and seasons» 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	4 expression	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 expression	amod
4	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sensation	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sensation	det
7	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 expression	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 coldness	case
9	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coldness	amod
10	coldness	coldness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sensation	nmod
11	.	.	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 expression of the sensation of personal coldness					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	sense			personal coldness					nom sensation «cognition 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 · ✓ the right answer

J'ai froid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	_	2 froid	compound
2	froid	froid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Il fait moi froid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Il	Il	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fait	nsubj
2	fait	fait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	moi	moi	X	_	4 froid	compound
4	froid	froid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fait	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fait	past	Il	moi froid					tree rules

Option 3

J'ai froide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	_	2 froide	compound
2	froide	froide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Je suis froid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	2 suis	nsubj
2	suis	sui	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	froid	froid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suis	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sui	present	Je	froid					tree rules

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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