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title: Select the preposition required before the name of a feminine countr… — My house and my home · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the preposition required before the name of a feminine country, such as Écosse, pursuant to the rules of French usage. Exam question 3 of lesson 21 «My house and my home» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Exam question 3 · My house and my home

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Select the preposition required before the name of a feminine country, such as Écosse, pursuant to the rules of French usage.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, French usage · **What happens:** select, require, name, rule · **To what, where:** preposition, feminine country

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 21 «My house and my home» 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/21-my-house-and-my-home/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:21-my-house-and-my-home:e3:1
# text = Select the preposition required before the name of a feminine country, such as Écosse, pursuant to the rules of French usage.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	preposition	preposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	Écosse	Écosse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	usage	usage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the preposition |  |  |  | to the rules of French usage | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent preposition=Theme to rule=be' |
| 2 | **require** | participle |  | the preposition *not said here* |  |  | before the name of a feminine country |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | a feminine country |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **rule** |  | French usage |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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à

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:21-my-house-and-my-home:e3:o1:1
# text = à
1	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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aux

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:21-my-house-and-my-home:e3:o2:1
# text = aux
1	aux	aux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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au

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:21-my-house-and-my-home:e3:o3:1
# text = au
1	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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en

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:21-my-house-and-my-home:e3:o4:1
# text = en
1	en	en	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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