Exam question 4 · The town and directions

Pursuant to a sign reading "Sortie", determine the function of the door so designated.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, designate · To what, where: function

This is exam question 4 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	10 determine	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 reading	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reading	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reading	compound
5	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 determine	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Sortie	punct
7	Sortie	sortie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reading	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Sortie	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reading	punct
10	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 function	det
12	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 determine	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 function	nmod
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 designated	advmod
17	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 function	acl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the function of the door				to a sign reading and Sortie; pursuant property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent function=Topic
2	designate	participle		the function of the door not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

The exit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 exit	det
2	exit	exit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A door for sorting goods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 sorting	mark
4	sorting	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 door	acl
5	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 sorting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	gerund	a door not said here	goods					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme

Option 3

The entrance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 entrance	det
2	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A door that must be pushed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 pushed	nsubj:pass
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pushed	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 pushed	aux:pass
6	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 door	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	must · passive		a door					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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