Exam question 1 · My house and my home
Identify the grammatically correct rendering of the statement "I reside in a house" in the French language.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, I · What happens: identify, reside, render · To what, where: correct rendering, house, statement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «My house and my home» 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 | 5 rendering | det |
| 3 | grammatically | grammatically | ADV | _ | 4 correct | advmod |
| 4 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rendering | amod |
| 5 | rendering | rendering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 statement | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 statement | det |
| 8 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rendering | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 reside | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 reside | nsubj |
| 11 | reside | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reside | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 house | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 language | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 language | det |
| 18 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 language | amod |
| 19 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | 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 rendering of the statement | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent rendering=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | reside in a quote | present | I | a house in the French language | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 3 | render | the statement | nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
J'habite dans des maison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'habite | J'habite | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | dans | dans | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'habite | flat:foreign |
| 3 | des | des | X | _ | 1 J'habite | flat:foreign |
| 4 | maison | maison | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'habite | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
J'habite dans un maison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'habite | J'habite | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | dans | dans | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'habite | flat:foreign |
| 3 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'habite | flat:foreign |
| 4 | maison | maison | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'habite | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Je habite dans une maison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 maison | compound |
| 2 | habite | habite | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | dans | dans | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | une | une | X | _ | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | maison | maison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
J'habite dans une maison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'habite | J'habite | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 maison | flat:foreign |
| 2 | dans | dans | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 maison | flat:foreign |
| 3 | une | une | X | _ | 4 maison | compound |
| 4 | maison | maison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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