Exam question 4 · Colours
It is given that a girl possesses ginger hair. Determine the adjective appropriate to her.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, you, adjective · What happens: give, possess, determine, appropriate · To what, where: It, ginger hair, girl
This is exam question 4 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a girl possesses ginger hair.
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 | _ | 7 possesses | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 possesses | nsubj |
| 7 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | ginger | ginger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hair | compound |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 possesses | obj |
| 10 | . | . | 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 | possess | present | a girl | ginger hair | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hair=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: Determine the adjective appropriate to her.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 adjective | det |
| 3 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appropriate | nsubj |
| 4 | appropriate | appropriate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Determine | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 appropriate | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | appropriate | past | the adjective | girl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
roux
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roux | roux | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
rouge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouge | rouge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
rousse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rousse | rousse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
orange
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | orange | orange | 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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