Exam question 4 · Être: to be

Ascertain the meaning of the statement "Je suis neuf".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Je · What happens: ascertain, sui, mean · To what, where: meaning, neuf, statement · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	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 statement	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 statement	det
6	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 suis	punct
8	Je	Je	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 suis	nsubj
9	suis	sui	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 statement	parataxis
10	neuf	neuf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suis	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 suis	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the statement	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	sui in a quote	present	Je	neuf	tree rules
3	mean			the statement	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 · ✓ the right answer

I am new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 new	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 new	cop
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					new property	tree rules

Option 2

I am nine years of age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 years	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 years	cop
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 age	case
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	nine years			of age		tree rules

Option 3

I possess nine items

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 possess	nsubj
2	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 items	nummod
4	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 possess	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present	I	nine items					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot item=Theme

Option 4

I am hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					hungry property	tree rules

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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