Exam question 2 · Plurals: les, des and silent s
Ascertain the plural form corresponding to the singular noun "œil".
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, plural form · What happens: ascertain, correspond · To what, where: plural form
This is exam question 2 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | 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 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | corresponding | correspond | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 form | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 noun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 noun | det |
| 8 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 noun | amod |
| 9 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 corresponding | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 œil | punct |
| 11 | œil | œil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 noun | appos |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 œil | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the plural form | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Topic | ||||
| 2 | correspond | gerund | the plural form not said here | to the singular noun | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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
œils
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | œils | œil | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
œiles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | œiles | œile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
œilx
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | œilx | œilx | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeux
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeux | yeux | 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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