Exam question 2 · Hobbies and sport

Select the correct rendering of the statement "I engage in cycling" in the French language.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, I · What happens: select, engage, render · To what, where: correct rendering, cycling, statement · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rendering	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rendering	amod
4	rendering	rendering	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 statement	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 statement	det
7	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rendering	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 engage	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 engage	nsubj
10	engage	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Select	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 cycling	case
12	cycling	cycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 engage	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 engage	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 language	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 language	det
16	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 language	amod
17	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 engage	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the correct rendering of the statement		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent rendering=Theme clause=Attribute
2	engage in a quote	present	I		in cycling goal; in the French language	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in cycling=Goal
3	render			the statement		nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Je joue au vélo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	joue	joue	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	au	au	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
4	vélo	vélo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign

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

Option 2

Je fais au vélo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	2 fais	nsubj
2	fais	fai	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	au	au	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vélo	compound
4	vélo	vélo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fais	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fai	present	Je	au vélo					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Je fais du vélo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	fais	fais	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	du	du	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
4	vélo	vélo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign

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

Option 4

Je joue du vélo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	joue	joue	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	du	du	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
4	vélo	vélo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	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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