Exam question 2 · Tu or vous? Manners in French

Identify the expression appropriate when a request is addressed to a waiter.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, address · To what, where: expression, request

This is exam question 2 of lesson 5 «Tu or vous? Manners in French» 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 expression	det
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	xcomp
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 addressed	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 request	det
7	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 addressed	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 addressed	aux:pass
9	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 waiter	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 waiter	det
12	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 addressed	obl
13	.	.	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 expression				appropriate property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	address	present · passive		a request				to a waiter	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination

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

Donne-moi...

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Donne	donne	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 moi	punct
3	moi	MoI	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Donne	appos
4	...	...	PUNCT	_	1 Donne	punct

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

Option 2

Je veux..., s'il te plaît

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	veux	veux	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	...	...	PUNCT	_	7 plaît	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plaît	punct
5	s'il	s'il	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plaît	compound
6	te	te	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plaît	amod
7	plaît	plaît	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Je	conj

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

Option 3

Salut, je veux...

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salut	Salut	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 veux	punct
3	je	je	X	Foreign=Yes	4 veux	compound
4	veux	veux	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Salut	appos
5	...	...	PUNCT	_	4 veux	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Je voudrais..., s'il vous plaît

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	voudrais	voudrais	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	...	...	PUNCT	_	1 Je	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plaît	punct
5	s'il	s'il	X	Foreign=Yes	7 plaît	compound
6	vous	vous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plaît	amod
7	plaît	plaît	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Je	conj

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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