Exam question 2 · Questions and simple sentences

Select the correct rendering of the question "How old are you?" addressed to a child.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, be, address, render · To what, where: correct rendering, question

This is exam question 2 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rendering	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rendering	amod
4	rendering	rendering	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 question	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 question	det
7	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rendering	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
9	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 old	advmod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 question	amod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 old	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct
15	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Select	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 child	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 addressed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the correct rendering of the question		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent rendering=Theme clause=Attribute
2	is in a quote	present	you		old property	tree rules
3	address	participle	you not said here		to a child	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	render			the question		nom rendering «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

Quel âge tu es ?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quel	Quel	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	âge	âge	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Quel	flat:foreign
3	tu	tu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Quel	flat:foreign
4	es	es	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Quel	flat:foreign
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Quel	punct

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

Option 2

Tu as quelle âge ?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tu	Tu	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 âge	case
3	quelle	quelle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 âge	amod
4	âge	âge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tu	nmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tu	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tu as quel âge ?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tu	Tu	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 âge	case
3	quel	quel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 âge	amod
4	âge	âge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tu	nmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tu	punct

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

Option 4

Tu es quel âge ?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tu	Tu	X	Foreign=Yes	4 âge	compound
2	es	es	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Tu	dep
3	quel	quel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 âge	amod
4	âge	âge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 âge	punct

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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