Exam question 1 · Songs and rhymes

Identify the subject of the traditional French song "Frère Jacques".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: subject

This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Songs and rhymes» 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 subject	det
3	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 song	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 song	det
6	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 song	amod
7	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 song	amod
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 subject	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Frère	punct
10	Frère	Frère	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 song	appos
11	Jacques	Jacques	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Frère	flat
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Frère	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the subject of the traditional French song					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=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

A clown in need of writing materials

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 clown	det
2	clown	clown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 need	case
4	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clown	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 materials	case
6	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 materials	compound
7	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clown	nmod

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

Option 2

A shepherd in search of his sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 search	case
4	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shepherd	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sheep	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sheep	nmod:poss
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shepherd	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A monk who has failed to wake in time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 monk	det
2	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 failed	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 failed	aux
5	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 monk	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wake	mark
7	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 failed	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 time	case
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	present · perfect	a monk						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not wake	to-infinitive	a monk not said here				time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

A miller whose mill has ceased to turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ceased	nsubj:pass
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 mill	nmod:poss
4	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ceased	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ceased	aux
6	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 turn	mark
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ceased	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease	present · perfect · passive		a miller					tree rules
2	turn	to-infinitive							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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