Exam question 2 · Numbers 21 to 69

Identify the correct French expression of the statement "I am nine years of age".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, I · What happens: identify, be · To what, where: correct French expression, nine years

This is exam question 2 of lesson 7 «Numbers 21 to 69» 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	5 expression	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 expression	amod
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 expression	amod
5	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 statement	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 statement	det
8	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expression	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 years	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 years	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 years	cop
12	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 age	case
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 years	nmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 years	punct
17	.	.	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 correct French expression of the statement					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	I	nine years			of age		tree rules

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

J'ai neuf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	_	2 neuf	compound
2	neuf	neuf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Je suis neuf ans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	suis	suis	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	neuf	neuf	X	_	1 Je	flat:foreign
4	ans	ans	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

J'ai neuf ans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	_	3 ans	compound
2	neuf	neuf	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 J'ai	flat:foreign
3	ans	an	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Je suis neuf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	2 suis	nsubj
2	suis	sui	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neuf	neuf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suis	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sui	present	Je	neuf					tree rules

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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