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Exam question 4 · Weather and seasons

It is given that the temperature in France is reported as vingt degrés. Determine the most accurate characterisation of the conditions.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, report, determine, characterise · To what, where: It, temperature, accurate characterisation, conditions

This is exam question 4 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

Sentence 1: It is given that the temperature in France is reported as vingt degrés.

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	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 reported	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 temperature	det
6	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reported	nsubj:pass
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 France	case
8	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 temperature	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 reported	aux:pass
10	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 degrés	case
12	vingt	vingt	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 degrés	nummod
13	degrés	degré	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 reported	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	report	present · passive		the temperature in France				as vingt degrés	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as degré=Attribute

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: Determine the most accurate characterisation of the conditions.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 characterisation	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurate	advmod
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 characterisation	amod
5	characterisation	characterisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 conditions	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 conditions	det
8	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 characterisation	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the accurate characterisation of the conditions					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characterisation=Topic
2	characterise			the conditions					nom characterisation «communication transitive»: of=patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Mild cold, twenty degrees Fahrenheit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 degrees	amod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mild	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mild	punct
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 degrees	nummod
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	Fahrenheit	Fahrenheit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 degrees	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2

Extreme heat, twenty degrees above boiling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heat	amod
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 degrees	punct
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 degrees	nummod
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heat	conj
6	above	above	ADP	_	7 boiling	case
7	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 degrees	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Warm, approximately sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 degrees	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 degrees	punct
3	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	6 eight	advmod
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eight	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sixty	punct
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 degrees	nummod
7	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	Fahrenheit	Fahrenheit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 degrees	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4

Severe frost, twenty degrees below zero

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 frost	amod
2	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 degrees	punct
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 degrees	nummod
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 frost	conj
6	below	below	ADV	_	7 zero	advmod
7	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 degrees	nmod

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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