Exam question 4 · False friends

Identify the correct French term for the coins returned to a purchaser after payment.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, coins · What happens: identify, return · To what, where: correct French term

This is exam question 4 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 term	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 term	amod
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 term	amod
5	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 returned	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coins	det
8	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 returned	nsubj
9	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 purchaser	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 purchaser	det
12	purchaser	purchaser	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returned	obl
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 payment	case
14	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returned	obl
15	.	.	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 correct French term					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	return	past	the coins				after payment	to a purchaser result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to purchaser=Result

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 · ✓ the right answer

la monnaie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	monnaie	monnaie	X	Foreign=Yes	1 la	flat:foreign

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

Option 2

le collège

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	le	le	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 collège	det
2	collège	collège	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

la location

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	la	la	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 location	det
2	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

l'argent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	l'argent	l'argent	NOUN	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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