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title: Identify the correct rendering of "my stomach hurts". — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the correct rendering of "my stomach hurts". Exam question 2 of lesson 16 «The body» 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 · The body

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Identify the correct rendering of "my stomach hurts".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, correct rendering · **What happens:** identify, hurt, render · **To what, where:** stomach · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 16 «The body» 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/16-the-body/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:e2:1
# text = Identify the correct rendering of "my stomach hurts".
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rendering	rendering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hurt** *in a quote* | present | the correct rendering of my stomach |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **render** |  |  | my stomach |  |  |  |  | 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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J'ai mal à le ventre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:e2:o1:1
# text = J'ai mal à le ventre
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
2	mal	mal	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	ventre	ventre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Je suis mal au ventre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:e2:o2:1
# text = Je suis mal au ventre
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	nmod	_	_
2	suis	sui	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mal	mal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ventre	ventre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mal** | present | suis  Je | au ventre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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J'ai mal au ventre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:e2:o3:1
# text = J'ai mal au ventre
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	mal	mal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ventre	ventre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Mon ventre est mal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:e2:o4:1
# text = Mon ventre est mal
1	Mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	ventre	ventre	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	est	est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	mal	mal	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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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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