Exam question 2 · Colours

Identify the correct rendering of "a black mouse".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, render · To what, where: correct rendering, black mouse

This is exam question 2 of lesson 9 «Colours» 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	4 rendering	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rendering	amod
4	rendering	rendering	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 mouse	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 mouse	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mouse	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mouse	amod
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rendering	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 mouse	punct
11	.	.	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 rendering of a black mouse					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rendering=Theme
2	render			a black mouse					nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

une noire souris

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	une	une	X	_	root	root
2	noire	noire	X	Foreign=Yes	1 une	flat:foreign
3	souris	souris	X	Foreign=Yes	1 une	flat:foreign

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

Option 2

un souris noire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	un	un	X	Foreign=Yes	3 noire	compound
2	souris	souris	X	Foreign=Yes	3 noire	compound
3	noire	noire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

une souris noir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	une	une	X	_	3 noir	compound
2	souris	souris	X	Foreign=Yes	1 une	flat:foreign
3	noir	noir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

une souris noire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	une	une	X	_	3 noire	compound
2	souris	souris	X	Foreign=Yes	3 noire	compound
3	noire	noire	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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