Exam question 2 · Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts

Identify the numeral denoted by the expression quatre-vingt-dix-neuf.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, denote · To what, where: numeral

This is exam question 2 of lesson 8 «Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts» 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 numeral	det
3	numeral	numeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	denoted	denote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 numeral	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	14 neuf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 neuf	det
7	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 neuf	nsubj
8	quatre	quatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 neuf	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 quatre	punct
10	vingt	vingt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 neuf	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 dix	punct
12	dix	dix	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 neuf	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 neuf	punct
14	neuf	neuf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denoted	obl
15	.	.	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 numeral					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent numeral=Theme
2	denote	participle		the numeral not said here				by the quatre vingt dix neuf	vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot

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 · ✓ the right answer

Ninety-nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 nine	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Ninety	conj

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

Option 2

Eighty-nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 nine	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Eighty	conj

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

Option 3

Seventy-nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 nine	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Seventy	conj

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

Option 4

Four hundred and nineteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 nineteen	cc
4	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	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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