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title: Determine which possessive form accompanies the noun chambre, irresp… — My house and my home · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine which possessive form accompanies the noun chambre, irrespective of the sex of the speaker. Exam question 4 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; Mova's choice was wrong
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# Exam question 4 · My house and my home

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Determine which possessive form accompanies the noun chambre, irrespective of the sex of the speaker.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, possessive form · **What happens:** determine, accompany, sex · **To what, where:** noun chambre, speaker

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:21-my-house-and-my-home:e4:1
# text = Determine which possessive form accompanies the noun chambre, irrespective of the sex of the speaker.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
3	possessive	possessive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	accompanies	accompany	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chambre	chambre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	irrespective	irrespective	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  | of the sex of the speaker | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **accompany** | present | possessive form | the noun chambre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sex** |  |  | the speaker |  |  |  |  | nom sex «act 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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mon, the speaker being male

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:21-my-house-and-my-home:e4:o1:1
# text = mon, the speaker being male
1	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | mon |  |  |  |  | male *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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ma, the noun being feminine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:21-my-house-and-my-home:e4:o2:1
# text = ma, the noun being feminine
1	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | the ma noun |  |  |  |  | feminine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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mes, the noun being singular

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:21-my-house-and-my-home:e4:o3:1
# text = mes, the noun being singular
1	mes	me	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | mes and the noun |  |  |  |  | singular *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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mon, the noun being masculine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:21-my-house-and-my-home:e4:o4:1
# text = mon, the noun being masculine
1	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | mon |  |  |  |  | masculine *property* | tree rules |

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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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