Exam question 1 · France and the French-speaking world

Identify the continent upon which the greatest number of French speakers reside.

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 34 «France and the French-speaking world» 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 continent	det
3	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 reside	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 number	det
7	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 number	amod
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reside	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 speakers	case
10	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 speakers	amod
11	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
12	reside	reside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 continent	acl:relcl
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 continent					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent continent=Theme
2	reside	present	the greatest number of French speakers			the continent			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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

North America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 America	compound
2	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Europe	Europe	PROPN	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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