Exam question 2 · In the classroom

Identify the correct request for permission to visit the lavatory.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, visit · To what, where: correct request, lavatory

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 request	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 request	amod
4	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 permission	case
6	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 visit	mark
8	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Identify	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lavatory	det
10	lavatory	lavatory	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 visit	obj
11	.	.	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 correct request				for permission	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent request=Theme
2	visit	to-infinitive	you not said here	the lavatory					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lavatory=Co-Agent

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

Je peux aller aux toilettes, s'il vous plaît ?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	9 plaît	nsubj
2	peux	peux	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	aller	aller	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
4	aux	aux	ADP	_	5 toilettes	case
5	toilettes	toilette	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Je	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 plaît	punct
7	s'il	s'il	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plaît	compound
8	vous	vous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plaît	amod
9	plaît	plaît	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 plaît	punct

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

Option 2

Je veux aller à la toilette tout de suite, monsieur !

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	7 tout	nsubj
2	veux	veux	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	aller	aller	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
4	à	à	ADP	_	7 tout	case
5	la	la	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tout	det
6	toilette	toilette	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tout	compound
7	tout	tout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	de	de	ADP	_	9 suite	case
9	suite	suite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tout	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 monsieur	punct
11	monsieur	monsieur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tout	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 tout	punct

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

Option 3

Je vais toilettes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	3 toilettes	nsubj
2	vais	vais	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	toilettes	toilette	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Toilette, monsieur ?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toilette	toilette	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 monsieur	punct
3	monsieur	monsieur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Toilette	appos
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Toilette	punct

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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