Exam question 4 · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★

Select the noun which alone satisfies the requirements of agreement in the sentence "Les ___ sont vertes".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, noun · What happens: select, satisfy, require · To what, where: noun, requirements, agreement

This is exam question 4 of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» 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 noun	det
3	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 satisfies	nsubj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 satisfies	advmod
6	satisfies	satisfy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 noun	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 requirements	det
8	requirements	requirement	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 satisfies	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 agreement	case
10	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 requirements	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sentence	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sentence	det
13	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 agreement	nmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Les	punct
15	Les	le	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sentence	appos
16	_	_	X	_	18 _	compound
17	_	_	X	_	16 _	goeswith
18	_	_	X	_	20 vertes	compound
19	sont	sont	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 vertes	compound
20	vertes	verte	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Les	conj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Les	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the noun		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noun=Theme
2	satisfy	present	the noun	the requirements of agreement in the sentence	alone property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus requirement=Experiencer
3	require			agreement in the sentence		nom requirement «cognition 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

chapeaux

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chapeaux	chapeaux	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

pommes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pommes	pomme	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

pantalon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pantalon	pantalon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

chats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chats	chat	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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