Exam question 1 · In the classroom

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the French noun crayon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: French noun crayon

This is exam question 1 of lesson 20 «In the classroom» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crayon	det
10	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 crayon	amod
11	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crayon	compound
12	crayon	crayon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the French noun crayon				of the following statements; accurately 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It denotes a fountain pen

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pen	det
4	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pen	compound
5	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denotes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	a fountain pen					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pen=Topic

Option 2

It denotes a rubber

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rubber	det
4	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denotes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	a rubber					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rubber=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It denotes a pencil, wax crayons being termed crayons de cire

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pencil	det
4	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denotes	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 termed	punct
6	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crayons	compound
7	crayons	crayon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 termed	nsubj
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 termed	aux:pass
9	termed	term	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 denotes	conj
10	crayons	crayon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cire	compound
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 crayons	conj
12	cire	cire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 termed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	a pencil					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pencil=Topic
2	term	gerund · passive		wax crayons					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme cire=Result

Option 4

It denotes a wax crayon exclusively

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crayon	det
4	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crayon	compound
5	crayon	crayon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denotes	obj
6	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 denotes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	a wax crayon				exclusively property	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crayon=Topic

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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