Exam question 1 · Hobbies and sport

Identify the construction prescribed in French for the playing of a musical instrument.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, musical instrument · What happens: identify, prescribe, play · To what, where: construction, French

This is exam question 1 of lesson 23 «Hobbies and sport» 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 construction	det
3	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 construction	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 French	case
6	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 prescribed	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 playing	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 playing	det
9	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prescribed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 instrument	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 instrument	det
12	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 instrument	amod
13	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 playing	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the construction			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent construction=Theme
2	prescribe	participle		the construction not said here	French	for the playing of a musical instrument	tree rules
3	play		a musical instrument				nom playing «act intransitive»: of=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

jouer à

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

faire à

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

jouer de

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

jouer sans préposition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jouer	jouer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sans	nsubj
2	sans	san	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	préposition	préposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sans	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	san	present	jouer	préposition					tree rules

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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