Exam question 3 · The body

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the gender of body parts in French.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, gender

This is exam question 3 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	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 gender	det
11	gender	gender	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 parts	case
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 parts	compound
14	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gender	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 French	case
16	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 parts	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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 gender of body parts in French		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus gender=Experiencer

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

It is determined by whether the speaker is a boy or a girl

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 determined	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 determined	aux:pass
3	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 boy	mark
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	10 boy	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 speaker	det
7	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 boy	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 determined	obl:agent
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 girl	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	present · passive	a boy or a girl	It					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
2	is a	present	the speaker	a boy or a girl					tree rules

Option 2

It is masculine for every part of the body

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 masculine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 masculine	cop
3	masculine	masculine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 masculine	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 body	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 body	det
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for every part of the body; masculine property	tree rules

Option 3

It is feminine for every part above the neck

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 feminine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feminine	cop
3	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feminine	obl
7	above	above	ADP	_	9 neck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neck	det
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for every part above the neck; feminine property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is fixed by the noun and is independent of the speaker's sex

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 fixed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fixed	aux:pass
3	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 noun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 noun	det
6	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fixed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 independent	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 independent	cop
9	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fixed	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 sex	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 speaker	det
12	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sex	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 speaker	case
14	sex	sex	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 independent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fix	present · passive	the noun	It		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	is	present	the noun not said here		of the speaker's sex; independent property	tree rules
3	sex		the speaker			nom sex «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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