Exam question 1 · Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style
Identify the occasion on which, in many French households, the principal Christmas meal is consumed.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, consume · To what, where: occasion, many French households, principal Christmas meal
This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» 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 occasion | det |
| 3 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Identify | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 households | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 households | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 households | amod |
| 9 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 households | amod |
| 10 | households | household | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Identify | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 consumed | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meal | det |
| 13 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meal | amod |
| 14 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 meal | compound |
| 15 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 consumed | aux:pass |
| 17 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 households | conj |
| 18 | . | . | 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 occasion | many French households | tree rules | |||
| 2 | consume | present · passive | the principal Christmas meal | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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 morning of 26 December
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 26 | case |
| 4 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 morning | nmod |
| 5 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 26 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The evening of 24 December
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 24 | case |
| 4 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 evening | nmod |
| 5 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 24 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The evening of 25 December
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 25 | case |
| 4 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 evening | nmod |
| 5 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 25 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The evening of 6 January
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 6 | case |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 evening | nmod |
| 5 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 6 | nmod:unmarked |
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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