Exam question 2 · At the café: ordering in French

Identify the beverage served when un café is requested in France.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, beverage · What happens: identify, serve, request · To what, where: un café, France

This is exam question 2 of lesson 19 «At the café: ordering in French» 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	3 beverage	det
3	beverage	beverage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 served	nsubj
4	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 requested	advmod
6	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 café	compound
7	café	café	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 requested	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 requested	aux:pass
9	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 served	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 France	case
11	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 requested	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	serve	past	the beverage			tree rules
3	request	present · passive		un café	France	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

A small strong black coffee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coffee	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coffee	amod
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coffee	amod
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coffee	amod
5	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A glass of hot chocolate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 chocolate	case
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chocolate	amod
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	nmod

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

Option 3

A cup of tea with lemon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cup	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 tea	case
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cup	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 lemon	case
6	lemon	lemon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cup	nmod

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

Option 4

A large milky coffee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coffee	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coffee	amod
3	milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coffee	amod
4	coffee	coffee	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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