Exam question 4 · Food and drink
It is given that a purchaser requests apples by weight. Determine the correct expression.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: purchaser, you · What happens: give, request, determine · To what, where: It, apples, correct expression
This is exam question 4 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a purchaser requests apples by weight.
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 requests | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 purchaser | det |
| 6 | purchaser | purchaser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 requests | nsubj |
| 7 | requests | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 requests | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 weight | case |
| 10 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 requests | obl |
| 11 | . | . | 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 | request | present | a purchaser | apples | by weight | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent apple=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.
Sentence 2: Determine the correct expression.
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 expression | det |
| 3 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 expression | amod |
| 4 | expression | expression | 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 expression | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Un kilo de pommes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Un | un | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kilo | det |
| 2 | kilo | kilo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pommes | compound |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 kilo | flat:foreign |
| 4 | pommes | pomme | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Une kilo de pommes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Une | Une | X | _ | 2 kilo | compound |
| 2 | kilo | kilo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pommes | compound |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 kilo | flat:foreign |
| 4 | pommes | pomme | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Un kilo pommes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Un | un | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pommes | det |
| 2 | kilo | kilo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pommes | compound |
| 3 | pommes | pomme | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Un kilo des pommes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Un | un | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kilo | det |
| 2 | kilo | kilo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pommes | compound |
| 3 | des | des | X | _ | 2 kilo | flat:foreign |
| 4 | pommes | pomme | 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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