Exam question 2 · The body
Identify the correct rendering of "my stomach hurts".
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, correct rendering · What happens: identify, hurt, render · To what, where: stomach · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 2 of lesson 16 «The body» 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 rendering | det |
| 3 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rendering | amod |
| 4 | rendering | rendering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurts | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stomach | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stomach | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rendering | nmod |
| 9 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | ccomp |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurts | punct |
| 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 | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurt in a quote | present | the correct rendering of my stomach | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | render | my stomach | 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
J'ai mal à le ventre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | _ | 5 ventre | compound |
| 2 | mal | mal | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 4 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 5 | ventre | ventre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Je suis mal au ventre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 suis | nmod |
| 2 | suis | sui | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mal | nsubj |
| 3 | mal | mal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ventre | compound |
| 5 | ventre | ventre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mal | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mal | present | suis Je | au ventre | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
J'ai mal au ventre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | mal | mal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ventre | amod |
| 3 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ventre | compound |
| 4 | ventre | ventre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Mon ventre est mal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ventre | ventre | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 3 | est | est | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 ventre | flat:foreign |
| 4 | mal | mal | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 ventre | flat:foreign |
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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