Exam question 3 · 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days

Determine the date upon which the Fête de la musique is held.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, hold · To what, where: date, Fête la musique

This is exam question 3 of lesson 33 «14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days» 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 date	det
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 held	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fête	det
7	Fête	Fête	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 musique	compound
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 Fête	flat:foreign
9	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	10 musique	compound
10	musique	musique	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 held	aux:pass
12	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 date	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the date					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic
2	hold	present · passive		Fête la musique		the date			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme upon which=Location

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

11 November

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 11	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

21 June

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	21	21	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 21	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3

1 May

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 1	flat

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

Option 4

14 July

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 14	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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