Exam question 4 · The body
It is given that a person has blue eyes. Determine the correct French statement.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person, you · What happens: give, have, determine · To what, where: It, blue eyes, correct French statement
This is exam question 4 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a person has blue eyes.
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 has | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | . | . | 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 | have | present | a person | blue eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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.
Sentence 2: Determine the correct French statement.
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 statement | det |
| 3 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 statement | amod |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 statement | amod |
| 5 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 6 | . | . | 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 correct French statement | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statement=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
J'ai les bleus yeux
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | bleus | bleus | X | _ | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 4 | yeux | yeux | X | _ | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
J'ai les yeux bleus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | yeux | yeux | X | _ | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 4 | bleus | bleus | X | _ | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
J'ai les yeux bleu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | _ | 4 bleu | compound |
| 2 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | yeux | yeux | X | _ | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 4 | bleu | bleu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Je suis les yeux bleus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | yeux | yeux | X | _ | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | bleus | bleus | X | _ | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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