Exam question 4 · My house and my home

Determine which possessive form accompanies the noun chambre, irrespective of the sex of the speaker.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, possessive form · What happens: determine, accompany, sex · To what, where: noun chambre, speaker

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 accompanies	obj
3	possessive	possessive	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 form	compound
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accompanies	nsubj
5	accompanies	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chambre	det
7	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chambre	compound
8	chambre	chambre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 accompanies	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sex	punct
10	irrespective	irrespective	ADV	_	13 sex	advmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sex	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sex	det
13	sex	sex	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 speaker	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 speaker	det
16	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sex	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here		of the sex of the speaker	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	accompany	present	possessive form	the noun chambre		tree rules
3	sex			the speaker		nom sex «act 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

mon, the speaker being male

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mon	mon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 male	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speaker	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speaker	det
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mon	appos
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 male	cop
6	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	mon					male property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

ma, the noun being feminine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 noun	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ma	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 noun	det
4	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feminine	nsubj
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 feminine	cop
6	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the ma noun					feminine property	tree rules

Option 3

mes, the noun being singular

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mes	me	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 singular	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 noun	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 noun	det
4	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mes	conj
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 singular	cop
6	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	mes and the noun					singular property	tree rules

Option 4

mon, the noun being masculine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mon	mon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 masculine	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 mon	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 noun	det
4	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 masculine	nsubj
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 masculine	cop
6	masculine	masculine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	mon					masculine property	tree rules

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