Exam question 4 · French compared with English

Ascertain the French expression signifying "I am hungry".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, French expression, I · What happens: ascertain, signify, be · To what, where: French expression · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 expression	det
3	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 expression	amod
4	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	signifying	signify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 expression	acl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hungry	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hungry	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hungry	cop
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 signifying	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hungry	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the French expression		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Topic
2	signify	gerund	the French expression not said here			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	is in a quote	present	I		hungry property	tree rules

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

J'ai faim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	_	2 faim	compound
2	faim	faim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Je suis fini

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	suis	suis	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	fini	fini	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign

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

Option 3

J'ai froid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	_	2 froid	compound
2	froid	froid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Je suis faim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Je	Je	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
2	suis	suis	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign
3	faim	faim	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Je	flat:foreign

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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