--- title: Identify the correct request for permission to visit the lavatory. — In the classroom · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the correct request for permission to visit the lavatory. Exam question 2 of lesson 20 «In the classroom» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/20-in-the-classroom/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [In the classroom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/20-in-the-classroom/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · In the classroom Identify the correct request for permission to visit the lavatory. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, visit · **To what, where:** correct request, lavatory This is exam question 2 of lesson 20 «In the classroom» 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/20-in-the-classroom/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:20-in-the-classroom:e2:1 # text = Identify the correct request for permission to visit the lavatory. 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 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lavatory lavatory NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the correct request | | | | for permission | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent request=Theme | | 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the lavatory | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lavatory=Co-Agent | 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} Je peux aller aux toilettes, s'il vous plaît ? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:20-in-the-classroom:e2:o1:1 # text = Je peux aller aux toilettes, s'il vous plaît ? 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 9 nsubj _ _ 2 peux peux X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 aller aller X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 aux aux ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 toilettes toilette NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 s'il s'il NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 vous vous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 plaît plaît NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Je veux aller à la toilette tout de suite, monsieur ! ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:20-in-the-classroom:e2:o2:1 # text = Je veux aller à la toilette tout de suite, monsieur ! 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 7 nsubj _ _ 2 veux veux X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 aller aller X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 à à ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 la la DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 toilette toilette NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 tout tout NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 de de ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 suite suite NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 monsieur monsieur NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Je vais toilettes ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:20-in-the-classroom:e2:o3:1 # text = Je vais toilettes 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 3 nsubj _ _ 2 vais vais X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 toilettes toilette NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Toilette, monsieur ? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:20-in-the-classroom:e2:o4:1 # text = Toilette, monsieur ? 1 Toilette toilette NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 monsieur monsieur NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` 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. - ← previous: [In the classroom, exam 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/20-in-the-classroom/e1/) - next →: [In the classroom, exam 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/20-in-the-classroom/e3/) - ↑ back to [In the classroom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/20-in-the-classroom/)