Exam question 4 · Numbers 0 to 20
It is given that the customary French manner of indicating numbers upon the fingers commences with a particular digit. Determine that digit.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: customary, French manner, you · What happens: give, manner, indicate, commence, determine · To what, where: It, numbers, digit
This is exam question 4 of lesson 6 «Numbers 0 to 20» 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 the customary French manner of indicating numbers upon the fingers commences with a particular digit.
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 | _ | 15 commences | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 customary | det |
| 6 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 manner | nsubj |
| 7 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 manner | amod |
| 8 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 commences | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 indicating | mark |
| 10 | indicating | indicate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 manner | acl |
| 11 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 indicating | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 fingers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fingers | det |
| 14 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 numbers | nmod |
| 15 | commences | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 digit | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 digit | det |
| 18 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 digit | amod |
| 19 | digit | digit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 commences | obl |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | manner | the customary | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | indicate | gerund | French manner not said here | numbers | upon the fingers | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot number=Topic | |||
| 4 | commence | present | French manner | with a particular digit | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with digit=Subeventuality |
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 that digit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 digit | det |
| 3 | digit | digit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | that digit | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent digit=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The middle finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 finger | det |
| 2 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 finger | amod |
| 3 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The index finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 finger | det |
| 2 | index | index | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finger | compound |
| 3 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The thumb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thumb | det |
| 2 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The little finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 finger | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 finger | amod |
| 3 | finger | finger | 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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