Exam question 3 · Food and drink
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning le pain perdu.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, pain perdu
This is exam question 3 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 | 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 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pain | compound |
| 11 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 perdu | compound |
| 12 | perdu | perdu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concerning | obj |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | 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 | pain perdu | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus perdu=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 · ✓ the right answer
It denotes stale bread soaked in egg and milk and fried
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 | 2 denotes | nsubj |
| 2 | denotes | denote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stale | stale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bread | amod |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 denotes | obj |
| 5 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 bread | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 egg | case |
| 7 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soaked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 milk | cc |
| 9 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 egg | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fried | cc |
| 11 | fried | fry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 soaked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | denote | present | It | stale bread | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bread=Topic | ||||
| 2 | soak | participle | stale bread not said here | in egg and milk | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in egg=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fry | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
It denotes bread fed to livestock
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 | 2 denotes | nsubj |
| 2 | denotes | denote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 denotes | obj |
| 4 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bread | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 livestock | case |
| 6 | livestock | livestock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | denote | present | It | bread | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bread=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feed | participle | bread not said here | livestock | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to livestock=Recipient |
Option 3
It denotes bread baked solely in Brittany
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 | 2 denotes | nsubj |
| 2 | denotes | denote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 denotes | obj |
| 4 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bread | acl |
| 5 | solely | solely | ADV | _ | 4 baked | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Brittany | case |
| 7 | Brittany | Brittany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 baked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | denote | present | It | bread | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bread=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bake | participle | bread not said here | in Brittany; solely property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in brittany=Instrument |
Option 4
It denotes bread which has been mislaid
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 | 2 denotes | nsubj |
| 2 | denotes | denote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 denotes | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 mislaid | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mislaid | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 mislaid | aux:pass |
| 7 | mislaid | mislay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bread | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | denote | present | It | bread | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bread=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mislay | present · perfect · passive | bread | tree rules |
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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