Exam question 1 · Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas
Identify the correct negative form of the statement "J'aime les chiens" in written French.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, write, form · To what, where: correct negative form, written French, statement
This is exam question 1 of lesson 24 «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» 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 | 5 form | det |
| 3 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 form | amod |
| 4 | negative | negative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 form | amod |
| 5 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 statement | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 statement | det |
| 8 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 form | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 chiens | punct |
| 10 | J'aime | J'aime | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 les | compound |
| 11 | les | le | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chiens | flat:foreign |
| 12 | chiens | chien | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 statement | appos |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 chiens | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 French | case |
| 15 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 French | amod |
| 16 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the correct negative form of the statement | written French | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme | |||
| 2 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | form | the statement | nom form «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 ne aime pas les chiens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 aime | dep |
| 2 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 aime | compound |
| 3 | aime | aime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 aime | dep |
| 5 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 pas | flat:foreign |
| 6 | chiens | chiens | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 pas | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
J'aime pas les chiens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'aime | J'aime | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'aime | flat:foreign |
| 3 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'aime | flat:foreign |
| 4 | chiens | chiens | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'aime | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Je n'aime pas les chiens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | n'aime | n'aime | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | chiens | chiens | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Je aime ne pas les chiens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Je | Je | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | aime | aime | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ne | ne | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 4 | pas | pas | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 5 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Je | flat:foreign |
| 6 | chiens | chiens | 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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