Exam question 3 · Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas

Ascertain the meaning of the interjection "Beurk", as employed in respect of food.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, employ, mean, respect · To what, where: meaning, respect, interjection, food

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 interjection	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 interjection	det
6	interjection	interjection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Beurk	punct
8	Beurk	Beurk	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 interjection	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Beurk	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 employed	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 employed	mark
12	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ascertain	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 respect	case
14	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 employed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 food	case
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 respect	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the interjection		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	employ	participle			respect of food	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean			the interjection		nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	respect			food		nom respect «cognition 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 · ✓ the right answer

Disgust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Surprise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Delight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Indifference

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Indifference	Indifference	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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