Exam question 3 · Songs and rhymes

Select the reason for which the adjective in "une souris verte" bears a final e.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select · To what, where: reason

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 bears	det
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 adjective	det
7	adjective	adjective	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bears	compound
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 verte	case
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 verte	punct
10	une	une	X	_	12 verte	flat:foreign
11	souris	souris	X	Foreign=Yes	12 verte	compound
12	verte	verte	X	Foreign=Yes	7 adjective	nmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 adjective	punct
14	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reason	nmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 e.	det
16	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 e.	amod
17	e.	E.	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the reason which adjective bears					tree rules

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

The adjective precedes the noun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 adjective	det
2	adjective	adjective	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 precedes	nsubj
3	precedes	precede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 noun	det
5	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 precedes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	precede	present	the adjective	the noun					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme noun=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The noun souris is feminine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 souris	det
2	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 souris	compound
3	souris	souris	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feminine	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feminine	cop
5	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the noun souris					feminine property	tree rules

Option 3

The noun souris is plural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 souris	det
2	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 souris	compound
3	souris	souris	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plural	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plural	cop
5	plural	plural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the noun souris					plural property	tree rules

Option 4

The mouse is very green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mouse	det
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 green	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 green	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 green	advmod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the mouse					green property	tree rules

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