Exam question 4 · Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl

Ascertain the meaning of "livre" when preceded by the feminine article une.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, precede, mean · To what, where: meaning, livre

This is exam question 4 of lesson 25 «Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl» 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 livre	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 livre	punct
6	livre	livre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 livre	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 preceded	advmod
9	preceded	precede	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 livre	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	14 une	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 une	det
12	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 une	amod
13	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 une	compound
14	une	une	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 preceded	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of livre		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	precede	participle			by the feminine article une	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	mean			livre		nom meaning «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

A library

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 library	det
2	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A pound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pound	det
2	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	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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