Exam question 2 · France and the French-speaking world

Select the expression employed by French-speaking Belgians to denote the number ninety.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, employ, speak, denote · To what, where: expression, Belgians, number ninety · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 expression	det
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 expression	acl
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 speaking	mark
6	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 speaking	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 French	punct
8	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 employed	advcl
9	Belgians	Belgian	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 speaking	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 denote	mark
11	denote	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 speaking	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ninety	det
13	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ninety	compound
14	ninety	ninety	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 denote	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the expression	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	employ	participle		the expression not said here	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	gerund		Belgians	tree rules
4	denote	to-infinitive		the number ninety	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ninety=Topic

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

quatre-vingt-dix

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quatre	quatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dix	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 quatre	punct
3	vingt	vingt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dix	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 dix	punct
5	dix	dix	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

neuvante

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	neuvante	neuvante	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

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

Option 3

huitante

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	huitante	huitante	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nonante

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nonante	nonante	X	Foreign=Yes	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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