Exam question 2 · Food and drink

Identify the French term denoting what in Britain are called crisps.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, French term · What happens: identify, denote, call · To what, where: French term · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 18 «Food and drink» 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 term	det
3	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 term	amod
4	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	nsubj:pass
5	denoting	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 term	acl
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 denoting	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Britain	case
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 denoting	obl
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 called	aux:pass
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
11	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 called	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	denote	gerund	the French term not said here	the French term	in Britain	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in britain=Attribute
3	call	present · passive		the French term		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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

des frites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 frites	det
2	frites	frite	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

des galettes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 galettes	det
2	galettes	galette	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

des croquettes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 croquettes	det
2	croquettes	croquette	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

des chips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chips	det
2	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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