Exam question 4 · In the classroom
It is given that a pupil does not comprehend an explanation. Determine the expression appropriate to that circumstance.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil, you · What happens: give, not comprehend, determine · To what, where: It, explanation, expression
This is exam question 4 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a pupil does not comprehend an explanation.
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 | _ | 9 comprehend | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pupil | det |
| 6 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comprehend | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 comprehend | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 comprehend | advmod |
| 9 | comprehend | comprehend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 given | advcl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 explanation | det |
| 11 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comprehend | obj |
| 12 | . | . | 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 | not comprehend | present · do-support | a pupil | a explanation | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer explanation=Stimulus |
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: Determine the expression appropriate to that circumstance.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 expression | det |
| 3 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Determine | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 circumstance | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 circumstance | det |
| 7 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appropriate | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the expression | appropriate property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Très bien
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Très | Très | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | bien | bien | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Très | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
C'est facile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C'est | C'est | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 facile | dep |
| 2 | facile | facile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Je ne comprends pas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 comprends | nsubj |
| 2 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | comprends | comprends | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 4 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 comprends | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
J'ai fini
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | fini | fini | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
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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