Exam question 2 · Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★
Identify the sum denoted by the inscription "9,50 €" upon a French menu.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, denote · To what, where: sum
This is exam question 2 of lesson 39 «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» 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 sum | det |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | denoted | denote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sum | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 inscription | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 inscription | det |
| 7 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 denoted | obl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 9,50 | punct |
| 9 | 9,50 | 9,50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 inscription | appos |
| 10 | € | € | SYM | Number=Sing | 9 9,50 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 9,50 | punct |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 menu | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 menu | det |
| 14 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 menu | amod |
| 15 | menu | menu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 denoted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | 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 sum | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | ||||
| 2 | denote | participle | the sum not said here | by the inscription; upon a French menu | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
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
Nine euros and fifty cents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 euros | nummod |
| 2 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cents | cc |
| 4 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cents | nummod |
| 5 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 euros | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ninety-five euros
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 euros | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 five | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Ninety | conj |
| 4 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nine hundred and fifty euros
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 euros | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fifty | cc |
| 4 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ninety-five cents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cents | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 five | punct |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Ninety | conj |
| 4 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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