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description: It is given that a purchaser requests apples by weight. Determine the correct expression. Exam question 4 of lesson 18 «Food and drink» 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 right.
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# Exam question 4 · Food and drink

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It is given that a purchaser requests apples by weight. Determine the correct expression.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** purchaser, you · **What happens:** give, request, determine · **To what, where:** It, apples, correct expression

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 18 «Food and drink» 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/18-food-and-drink/#e4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a purchaser requests apples by weight.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:e4:1
# text = It is given that a purchaser requests apples by weight.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	purchaser	purchaser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	requests	request	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **request** | present | a purchaser | apples |  |  |  | by weight | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent apple=Recipient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Determine the correct expression.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:e4:2
# text = Determine the correct expression.
1	Determine	determine	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	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the correct expression |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Un kilo de pommes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:e4:o1:1
# text = Un kilo de pommes
1	Un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kilo	kilo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	pommes	pomme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Une kilo de pommes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:e4:o2:1
# text = Une kilo de pommes
1	Une	Une	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	kilo	kilo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	pommes	pomme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Un kilo pommes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:e4:o3:1
# text = Un kilo pommes
1	Un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kilo	kilo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pommes	pomme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Un kilo des pommes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:e4:o4:1
# text = Un kilo des pommes
1	Un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kilo	kilo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	des	des	X	FW	_	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	pommes	pomme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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