Exam question 3 · Weather and seasons

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the prepositions employed with the seasons.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, employ · To what, where: response, prepositions

This is exam question 3 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	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 prepositions	det
11	prepositions	preposition	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 prepositions	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 seasons	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 seasons	det
15	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 employed	obl
16	.	.	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	the prepositions			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus preposition=Experiencer
4	employ	participle		the prepositions not said here	season		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

En precedes all four seasons without exception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	En	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 precedes	nsubj
2	precedes	precede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 four	advmod
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 seasons	nummod
5	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 precedes	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 exception	case
7	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 precedes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	precede	present	En				season	without exception	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

En precedes été, automne and hiver, whereas au precedes printemps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	En	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 precedes	nsubj
2	precedes	precede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	été	été	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 precedes	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 automne	punct
5	automne	automne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 été	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hiver	cc
7	hiver	hiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 été	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 precedes	punct
9	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	11 precedes	mark
10	au	au	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 precedes	nsubj
11	precedes	precede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 precedes	conj
12	printemps	printemp	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 precedes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	precede	present	En	été and automne and hiver					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme été=Co-Theme
2	precede	present	au	printemps					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme printemp=Co-Theme

Option 3

Dans precedes été and hiver, whereas à precedes printemps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dans	dan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 precedes	nsubj
2	precedes	precede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	été	été	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 precedes	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hiver	cc
5	hiver	hiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 été	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 whereas	punct
7	whereas	wherea	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 precedes	conj
8	à	à	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 precedes	nsubj
9	precedes	precede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 whereas	ccomp
10	printemps	printemp	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 precedes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	precede	present	Dans	été and hiver	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme été=Co-Theme
2	wherea	present	Dans not said here		tree rules
3	precede	present	à	printemps	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme printemp=Co-Theme

Option 4

Au precedes all four seasons without exception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Au	au	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 precedes	nsubj
2	precedes	precede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 four	advmod
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 seasons	nummod
5	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 precedes	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 exception	case
7	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 precedes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	precede	present	Au				season	without exception	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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