Exam question 4 · Pets and animals
It is given that a noun terminates in the letter s, as in souris. Determine its plural form.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: noun, you · What happens: give, terminate, determine, form · To what, where: It, letter, plural form
This is exam question 4 of lesson 15 «Pets and animals» 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 a noun terminates in the letter s, as in souris.
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 | _ | 7 terminates | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 noun | det |
| 6 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 terminates | nsubj |
| 7 | terminates | terminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 letter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 letter | det |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 terminates | obj |
| 11 | s | 's | PART | Typo=Yes | 10 letter | case |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 souris | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 souris | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 souris | case |
| 15 | souris | souris | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 given | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | terminate | present | a noun | the letter | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
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 its plural form.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 form | nmod:poss |
| 3 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 form | amod |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | noun's plural form | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Topic | ||||
| 2 | form | noun | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
des sourisses, with the doubling of s
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sourisses | det |
| 2 | sourisses | souriss | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 doubling | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 doubling | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 doubling | det |
| 6 | doubling | doubling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sourisses | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 s | case |
| 8 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doubling | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | double | s | nom doubling «process transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
des sourix, with the addition of -x
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sourix | det |
| 2 | sourix | sourix | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 addition | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 addition | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 addition | det |
| 6 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sourix | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 x | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 of | punct |
| 9 | x | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 addition | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
des sourises, with the addition of -es
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sourises | det |
| 2 | sourises | souris | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 addition | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 addition | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 addition | det |
| 6 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sourises | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 es | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 of | punct |
| 9 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 addition | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
des souris, the noun being unchanged
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 souris | det |
| 2 | souris | souris | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 noun | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 noun | det |
| 5 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unchanged | nsubj |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 unchanged | cop |
| 7 | unchanged | unchanged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 souris | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the noun | unchanged property | 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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