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title: Identify the correct French rendering of the year 2026. — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the correct French rendering of the year 2026. Exam question 2 of lesson 11 «Dates and birthdays» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · Dates and birthdays

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Identify the correct French rendering of the year 2026.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, render · **To what, where:** correct French rendering, year

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 11 «Dates and birthdays» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:e2:1
# text = Identify the correct French rendering of the year 2026.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rendering	rendering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the correct French rendering of the year |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent rendering=Theme |
| 2 | **render** |  |  | the year |  |  |  |  | nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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deux milles vingt-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:e2:o1:1
# text = deux milles vingt-six
1	deux	deux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	milles	mille	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mille** | present | deux | vingt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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deux cent vingt-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:e2:o2:1
# text = deux cent vingt-six
1	deux	deux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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deux mille vingt-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:e2:o3:1
# text = deux mille vingt-six
1	deux	deux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	mille	mille	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	vingt	vingt	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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vingt vingt-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:e2:o4:1
# text = vingt vingt-six
1	vingt	vingt	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
```

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

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**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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