Exam question 3 · Clothes

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning school uniform in France.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 17 «Clothes» 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	11 uniform	amod
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	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 uniform	amod
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uniform	compound
11	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 France	case
13	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 uniform	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					tree rules
2	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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

All schools require a uniform of navy blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 schools	det
2	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 require	nsubj
3	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 uniform	det
5	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 require	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 blue	case
7	navy	navy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blue	amod
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 uniform	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	all schools	a uniform of navy blue					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme uniform=Precondition

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The majority of state schools do not require one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 majority	det
2	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 require	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 schools	case
4	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 schools	compound
5	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 majority	nmod
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 require	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 require	advmod
8	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 require	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not require	present · do-support	the majority of state schools	one					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Precondition

Option 3

Uniform is required solely in primary schools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 required	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 schools	case
6	primary	primary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 schools	amod
7	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 required	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive		Uniform		primary schools		solely property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition

Option 4

Uniform is required solely on public holidays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 required	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 holidays	case
6	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 holidays	amod
7	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 required	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive		Uniform		public holidays		solely property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition

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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