Exam question 3 · The town and directions
It is given that the preposition à precedes the masculine article le. State the contracted form required.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: preposition à · What happens: give, precede, contract, require · To what, where: It, masculine article le, State
This is exam question 3 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
Sentence 1: It is given that the preposition à precedes the masculine article le.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 precedes | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 à | det |
| 6 | preposition | preposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 à | compound |
| 7 | à | à | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 precedes | nsubj |
| 8 | precedes | precede | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 le | det |
| 10 | masculine | masculine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 le | amod |
| 11 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 le | compound |
| 12 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 precedes | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | precede | present | the preposition à | the masculine article le | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme le=Co-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.
Sentence 2: State the contracted form required.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 required | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 form | det |
| 3 | contracted | contract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 form | amod |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | appos |
| 5 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 required | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contract | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | require | participle · passive | State | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
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 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 · ← Mova's choice
à le
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | à | à | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 le | amod |
| 2 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
à la
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 à | flat:foreign |
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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