Exam question 4 · Numbers 21 to 69
It is given that a price is announced as "un euro vingt". Ascertain the sum payable.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, announce, ascertain · To what, where: It, price, sum payable
This is exam question 4 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a price is announced as "un euro vingt".
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 announced | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 price | det |
| 6 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 announced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 announced | aux:pass |
| 8 | announced | announce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 vingt | case |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 vingt | punct |
| 11 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 vingt | compound |
| 12 | euro | euro | X | _ | 13 vingt | compound |
| 13 | vingt | vingt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 announced | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 vingt | punct |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | announce speech: other | present · passive | a price | as un euro vingt | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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: Ascertain the sum payable.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 payable | det |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 payable | compound |
| 4 | payable | payable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the sum payable | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payable=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Twenty euros and one cent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 euros | nummod |
| 2 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cent | cc |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cent | nummod |
| 5 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 euros | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Twenty-one euros
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 one | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twenty | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 euros | nummod |
| 4 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
One hundred and twenty euros
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 euros | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 twenty | cc |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
One euro and twenty cents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 euro | nummod |
| 2 | euro | euro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cents | cc |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cents | nummod |
| 5 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 euro | 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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