Exam question 4 · Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u
It is given that the words deux and douze are frequently confused. Ascertain their respective numerical values.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: words, you · What happens: give, be, ascertain, value · To what, where: It, respective numerical values
This is exam question 4 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
Sentence 1: It is given that the words deux and douze are frequently confused.
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 | _ | 12 confused | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 confused | nsubj |
| 7 | deux | deux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 words | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 douze | cc |
| 9 | douze | douze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deux | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 confused | cop |
| 11 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 12 confused | advmod |
| 12 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 given | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | is | present | the words | confused, frequently property | tree rules |
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: Ascertain their respective numerical values.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 values | nmod:poss |
| 3 | respective | respective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 values | amod |
| 4 | numerical | numerical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 values | amod |
| 5 | values | value | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | words's respective numerical values | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Topic | ||||
| 2 | value | words = word | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Two and twelve respectively
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 twelve | cc |
| 3 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Two | conj |
| 4 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 1 Two | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Twelve and two respectively
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 two | cc |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Twelve | conj |
| 4 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 1 Twelve | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two and twenty respectively
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 twenty | cc |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Two | conj |
| 4 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 3 twenty | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Both denote the number two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 2 denote | cc:preconj |
| 2 | denote | denote | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 denote | obj |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 number | nummod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | denote | imperative | you not said here | the number | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot number=Topic |
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