Exam question 4 · Tu or vous? Manners in French
It is given that a person has sneezed in the presence of a child, and that the person is an adult not intimately known. Determine the appropriate expression.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person, you · What happens: give, sneeze, be, not know, determine · To what, where: It, person, presence, adult, appropriate expression
This is exam question 4 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a person has sneezed in the presence of a child, and that the person is an adult not intimately known.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 sneezed | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sneezed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sneezed | aux |
| 8 | sneezed | sneeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 presence | det |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sneezed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 child | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 presence | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 known | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 known | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 adult | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 adult | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 adult | cop |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 adult | det |
| 22 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 known | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 known | advmod |
| 24 | intimately | intimately | ADV | _ | 25 known | advmod |
| 25 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sneeze | present · perfect · passive | a person | the presence of a child | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the person | a adult | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not know | participle · passive | a adult | intimately property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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.
Sentence 2: Determine the appropriate expression.
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 | 4 expression | det |
| 3 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 expression | amod |
| 4 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | . | . | 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 appropriate expression | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
À tes souhaits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | À | à | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tes | amod |
| 2 | tes | te | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 souhaits | compound |
| 3 | souhaits | souhait | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
À vos souhaits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | À | À | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | vos | vos | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 À | flat:foreign |
| 3 | souhaits | souhaits | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 À | flat:foreign |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Bon appétit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bon | Bon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | appétit | appétit | PROPN | _ | 1 Bon | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
De rien
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | rien | rien | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 De | flat:foreign |
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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