Exam question 2 · French compared with English

Identify the literal sense of the French numeral "quatre-vingts".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, sense · To what, where: literal sense, French numeral

This is exam question 2 of lesson 35 «French compared with English» of the language 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 sense	det
3	literal	literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sense	amod
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 numeral	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 numeral	det
7	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 numeral	amod
8	numeral	numeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sense	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 vingts	punct
10	quatre	quatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vingts	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 vingts	punct
12	vingts	vingt	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 numeral	appos
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 vingts	punct
14	.	.	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 literal sense of the French numeral					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sense=Theme
2	sense			the French numeral					nom sense «cognition 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

Forty-eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Forty	conj

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

Option 2

Four tens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tens	nummod
2	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Four twenties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 twenties	nummod
2	twenties	twenty	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Eight tens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tens	nummod
2	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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