Exam question 4 · Avoir: to have

Determine the form employed to describe hair, in the statement "she has long hair".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, form · What happens: determine, employ, describe, have · To what, where: statement, hair, long hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 form	det
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	nsubj
4	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 describe	mark
6	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 employed	xcomp
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describe	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 statement	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 statement	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 statement	det
11	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	parataxis
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hair	amod
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	obj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here		the statement	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	employ	past	the form			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	describe	to-infinitive	the form not said here	hair		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
4	have in a quote	present	form	long hair		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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

Elle à les cheveux longs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elle	Elle	X	Foreign=Yes	5 longs	nsubj
2	à	à	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Elle	flat:foreign
3	les	les	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Elle	flat:foreign
4	cheveux	cheveux	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 longs	compound
5	longs	long	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Elle a les cheveux long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elle	Elle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 les	compound
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 les	det
3	les	le	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cheveux	nsubj
4	cheveux	cheveux	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cheveux	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheveux	present	a Elle les					long property	tree rules

Option 3

Elle est les cheveux longs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elle	Elle	X	Foreign=Yes	5 longs	compound
2	est	est	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Elle	flat:foreign
3	les	les	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Elle	flat:foreign
4	cheveux	cheveux	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Elle	flat:foreign
5	longs	long	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Elle a les cheveux longs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elle	Elle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 longs	compound
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	1 Elle	det
3	les	les	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Elle	flat:foreign
4	cheveux	cheveux	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 longs	compound
5	longs	long	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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