Exam question 1 · The town and directions

Identify the instruction denoted by the French expression "tout droit" when directions are given.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, denote, give · To what, where: instruction, directions

This is exam question 1 of lesson 22 «The town and directions» 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	3 instruction	det
3	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	denoted	denote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 instruction	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 expression	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 expression	det
7	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 expression	amod
8	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denoted	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 droit	punct
10	tout	tout	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 droit	compound
11	droit	droit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expression	appos
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 droit	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 given	mark
14	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 given	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 given	aux:pass
16	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 denoted	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the instruction		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme
2	denote	participle		the instruction not said here	by the French expression	vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
3	give	present · passive		directions		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

Return by the same route

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 route	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 route	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 route	amod
5	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Return	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return		the same route						nom return «communication intransitive»: by=agent

Option 2

Proceed to the left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proceed	proceed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 left	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 left	det
4	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Proceed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	imperative	you not said here					to the left	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Proceed straight ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proceed	proceed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 ahead	advmod
3	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	1 Proceed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	imperative	you not said here					ahead property	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Proceed to the right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proceed	proceed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 right	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 right	det
4	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Proceed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	imperative	you not said here					to the right	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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