Exam question 3 · Être: to be

Determine the verb employed in French for the expression of hunger.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, employ · To what, where: verb, French

This is exam question 3 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 verb	det
3	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 verb	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 French	case
6	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 employed	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 expression	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 expression	det
9	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 hunger	case
11	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 expression	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the verb					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Topic
2	employ	participle		the verb not said here		French		for the expression of hunger	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for expression=Eventuality

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

être, as in je suis faim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	être	être	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 je	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 je	case
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 je	case
5	je	je	X	Foreign=Yes	1 être	conj
6	suis	suis	X	Foreign=Yes	1 être	dep
7	faim	faim	X	Foreign=Yes	1 être	flat:foreign

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

Option 2

aller, as in je vais faim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aller	all	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 je	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 aller	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 je	case
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 je	case
5	je	je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
6	vais	vais	X	Foreign=Yes	5 je	flat:foreign
7	faim	faim	X	Foreign=Yes	5 je	flat:foreign

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

avoir, as in j'ai faim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	avoir	avoir	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 avoir	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 faim	case
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 faim	case
5	j'ai	j'ai	X	_	6 faim	compound
6	faim	faim	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 avoir	obl

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

Option 4

faire, as in je fais faim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	faire	faire	ADV	_	5 je	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 faire	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 je	case
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 je	case
5	je	je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
6	fais	fais	X	Foreign=Yes	5 je	flat:foreign
7	faim	faim	X	Foreign=Yes	5 je	flat:foreign

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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