Exam question 2 · Avoir: to have

Select the expression which correctly conveys, in French, the condition of being thirsty.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, expression · What happens: select, convey, be · To what, where: expression, French

This is exam question 2 of lesson 29 «Avoir: to have» 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 expression	det
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 conveys	nsubj
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 conveys	advmod
6	conveys	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 expression	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 French	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 French	case
9	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 conveys	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 condition	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 condition	det
12	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 French	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 thirsty	case
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 thirsty	cop
15	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 condition	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the expression		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	convey	present	the expression	French	correctly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent french=Topic
3	is	gerund			thirsty property	tree rules

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

J'ai soif

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

J'ai faim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Je suis soif

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	suis	suis	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	soif	soif	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign

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

Option 4

Je soif

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	soif	soif	X	Foreign=Yes	1 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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