Exam question 3 · My house and my home
Select the preposition required before the name of a feminine country, such as Écosse, pursuant to the rules of French usage.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, French usage · What happens: select, require, name, rule · To what, where: preposition, feminine country
This is exam question 3 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 | Select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 preposition | det |
| 3 | preposition | preposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 4 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 preposition | acl |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 required | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 10 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Écosse | punct |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 Écosse | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | Écosse | Écosse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 country | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rules | punct |
| 17 | pursuant | pursuant | ADV | _ | 20 rules | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 rules | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rules | det |
| 20 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Select | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 usage | case |
| 22 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 usage | amod |
| 23 | usage | usage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rules | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the preposition | to the rules of French usage | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent preposition=Theme to rule=be' | |||
| 2 | require | participle | the preposition not said here | before the name of a feminine country | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | a feminine country | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | rule | French usage | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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
à
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
aux
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aux | aux | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
au
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
en
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | en | en | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/21-my-house-and-my-home/e3/