Exam question 1 · False friends

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a "faux ami"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: faux ami

This is exam question 1 of lesson 35 «False friends» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ami	det
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 ami	punct
11	faux	faux	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ami	amod
12	ami	ami	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 ami	punct
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		a faux ami				of the following statements; accurately property	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

An English word with no French equivalent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
2	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 word	amod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 equivalent	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 equivalent	det
6	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 equivalent	amod
7	equivalent	equivalent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	nmod

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

Option 2

A French word identical in form and meaning to an English word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
2	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 word	amod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 word	amod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 form	case
6	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 meaning	cc
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 form	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 word	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
11	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 word	amod
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	nmod

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

Option 3

A word of no fixed meaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 meaning	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 meaning	det
5	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 meaning	amod
6	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	participle							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	word			no fixed meaning					nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A French word resembling an English one but differing in sense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
2	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 word	amod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	resembling	resemble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 word	acl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resembling	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 differing	cc
9	differing	differ	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 resembling	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 sense	case
11	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 differing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resemble	gerund	a French word not said here	a English one					tree rules
2	differ	gerund	a French word not said here			sense			vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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