Exam question 3 · Questions and simple sentences

Determine the conjunction with which a question introduced by pourquoi is customarily answered.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, introduce, answer · To what, where: conjunction, question

This is exam question 3 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conjunction	det
3	conjunction	conjunction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 answered	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 question	det
7	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	nsubj:pass
8	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 question	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 pourquoi	case
10	pourquoi	pourquoi	X	Foreign=Yes	8 introduced	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	aux:pass
12	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	13 answered	advmod
13	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 conjunction	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the conjunction		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conjunction=Topic
2	introduce	participle		a question not said here	by pourquoi	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	answer speech: assert	present · passive		a question	with the conjunction; customarily property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality

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

pourquoi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pourquoi	pourquoi	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

parce que

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	parce	parce	NOUN	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 3

quand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quand	quand	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

comment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	comment	comment	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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