Exam question 4 · Clothes
It is given that a plural feminine noun is qualified by the adjective noir. Determine the correct form.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plural feminine noun, you · What happens: give, be, determine · To what, where: It, correct form
This is exam question 4 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a plural feminine noun is qualified by the adjective noir.
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 | _ | 10 qualified | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 noun | det |
| 6 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noun | amod |
| 7 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noun | amod |
| 8 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 qualified | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 qualified | cop |
| 10 | qualified | qualified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 given | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 noir | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 noir | det |
| 13 | adjective | adjective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 noir | amod |
| 14 | noir | noir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 qualified | obl |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | is | present | a plural feminine noun | by the adjective noir; qualified property | tree rules |
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 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 form | det |
| 3 | correct | correct | 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 | the correct form | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
noir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | noir | noir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
noires
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | noires | noire | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
noirs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | noirs | noir | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
noire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | noire | noire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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