Exam question 1 · Plurals: les, des and silent s

Identify the plural form of the noun "gâteau" in accordance with the rules of French orthography.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, French orthography · What happens: identify, form, rule · To what, where: plural form, accordance, noun

This is exam question 1 of lesson 26 «Plurals: les, des and silent s» 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	4 form	det
3	plural	plural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 noun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 noun	det
7	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 form	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 gâteau	punct
9	gâteau	gâteau	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noun	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 gâteau	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 accordance	case
12	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 rules	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rules	det
15	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 orthography	case
17	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 orthography	amod
18	orthography	orthography	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rules	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the plural form of the noun	accordance	with the rules of French orthography	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	form			the noun			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	rule		French orthography				nom rule «cognition 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

gâteaus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gâteaus	gâteau	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

gâtaux

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

gâteauxs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gâteauxs	gâteaux	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

gâteaux

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gâteaux	gâteaux	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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