Exam question 2 · The town and directions

Select the establishment at which books may be borrowed without charge, as distinct from purchased.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, borrow, purchase · To what, where: establishment, books

This is exam question 2 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 establishment	det
3	establishment	establishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 borrowed	obl
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 borrowed	nsubj:pass
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 borrowed	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 borrowed	aux:pass
9	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Select	parataxis
10	without	without	ADP	_	11 charge	case
11	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 borrowed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 distinct	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 distinct	case
14	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 borrowed	conj
15	from	from	SCONJ	_	16 purchased	mark
16	purchased	purchase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 distinct	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the establishment		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent establishment=Theme
2	borrow	may · passive		books	without charge	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	purchase	participle				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

la mairie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	mairie	mairie	X	Foreign=Yes	1 la	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

la pâtisserie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	pâtisserie	pâtisserie	X	Foreign=Yes	1 la	flat:foreign

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

la bibliothèque

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	bibliothèque	bibliothèque	X	Foreign=Yes	1 la	flat:foreign

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

la librairie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	2 librairie	det
2	librairie	librairie	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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