Exam question 1 · Questions and simple sentences

Identify the expression which, placed at the commencement of a statement, renders it interrogative.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, place, render · To what, where: expression, commencement

This is exam question 1 of lesson 30 «Questions and simple sentences» 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	Identify	identify	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 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 placed	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 placed	punct
6	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 expression	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 commencement	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 commencement	det
9	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 statement	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 statement	det
12	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 commencement	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 renders	punct
14	renders	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 renders	obj
16	interrogative	interrogative	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 renders	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the expression		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	place	participle · passive		the expression	the commencement of a statement	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at commencement=Destination
3	render	present		expression		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient interrogative=Theme

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

Ne ... pas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	...	...	PUNCT	_	3 pas	punct
3	pas	pa	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ne	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Est-ce que

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Est	Est	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ce	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Est	punct
3	ce	ce	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 que	compound
4	que	que	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Parce que

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parce	Parce	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 que	compound
2	que	que	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Il y a

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Il	Il	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 y	nsubj
2	y	y	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 y	flat:foreign

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	y	past	Il						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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