Exam question 2 · Être: to be

Select the sentence which correctly expresses, in respect of a female Scottish speaker, her nationality.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, sentence · What happens: select, express, respect · To what, where: sentence, respect, female Scottish speaker

This is exam question 2 of lesson 28 «Être: to be» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sentence	det
3	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 expresses	nsubj
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 expresses	advmod
6	expresses	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sentence	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 respect	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 respect	case
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expresses	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 speaker	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 speaker	det
12	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 speaker	amod
13	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 speaker	amod
14	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 respect	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nationality	punct
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 nationality	nmod:poss
17	nationality	nationality	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 speaker	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the sentence		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme
2	express	present	the sentence	respect of a female Scottish speaker and her nationality	correctly property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Theme
3	respect			a female Scottish speaker and her nationality		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

Je suis écossaise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	2 suis	nsubj
2	suis	sui	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	écossaise	écossaise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suis	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sui	present	Je	écossaise					tree rules

Option 2

J'ai écossaise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	_	2 écossaise	compound
2	écossaise	écossaise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Je suis Écossaise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	2 suis	nsubj
2	suis	sui	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Écossaise	Écossaise	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 suis	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sui	present	Je	Écossaise					tree rules

Option 4

Je suis écossais

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	3 écossais	nsubj
2	suis	suis	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	écossais	écossai	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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