Exam question 3 · False friends

Determine the meaning of the verb "attendre".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, mean · To what, where: meaning, verb

This is exam question 3 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 verb	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 verb	det
6	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 attendre	punct
8	attendre	attendre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 verb	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 attendre	punct
10	.	.	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 meaning of the verb					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	mean			the verb					nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

To attend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 attend	mark
2	attend	attend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	to-infinitive							vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To listen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 listen	mark
2	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	to-infinitive							vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To arrive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 arrive	mark
2	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wait	mark
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	to-infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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