Exam question 2 · Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u

Identify the meaning, in the French language, of the noun pain.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: meaning, French language

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u» 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 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 language	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 language	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 language	det
7	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 language	amod
8	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pain	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 pain	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pain	det
12	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pain	compound
13	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the meaning		the French language		of the noun pain	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme

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

Physical suffering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 suffering	amod
2	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A substance for painting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 substance	det
2	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 painting	case
4	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 substance	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A sheet of glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sheet	det
2	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 glass	case
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheet	nmod

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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