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title: Identify the beverage served when un café is requested in France. — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the beverage served when un café is requested in France. Exam question 2 of lesson 19 «At the café: ordering in French» 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 2 · At the café: ordering in French

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Identify the beverage served when un café is requested in France.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, beverage · **What happens:** identify, serve, request · **To what, where:** un café, France

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 19 «At the café: ordering in French» 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/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:e2:1
# text = Identify the beverage served when un café is requested in France.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beverage	beverage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	café	café	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 | **serve** | past | the beverage |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **request** | present · passive |  | un café |  | France |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=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.

## The options {#options}

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

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A small strong black coffee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:e2:o1:1
# text = A small strong black coffee
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	coffee	coffee	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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A glass of hot chocolate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:e2:o2:1
# text = A glass of hot chocolate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A cup of tea with lemon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:e2:o3:1
# text = A cup of tea with lemon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lemon	lemon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A large milky coffee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:e2:o4:1
# text = A large milky coffee
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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