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title: Select the establishment at which books may be borrowed without char… — The town and directions · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the establishment at which books may be borrowed without charge, as distinct from purchased. Exam question 2 of lesson 22 «The town and directions» 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 wron
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# Exam question 2 · The town and directions

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Select the establishment at which books may be borrowed without charge, as distinct from purchased.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select, borrow, purchase · **To what, where:** establishment, books

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 22 «The town and directions» 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/22-the-town-and-directions/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e2:1
# text = Select the establishment at which books may be borrowed without charge, as distinct from purchased.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 establishment |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent establishment=Theme |
| 2 | **borrow** | may · passive |  | books |  |  |  | without charge | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **purchase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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la mairie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e2:o1:1
# text = la mairie
1	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	mairie	mairie	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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la pâtisserie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e2:o2:1
# text = la pâtisserie
1	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	pâtisserie	pâtisserie	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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la bibliothèque

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e2:o3:1
# text = la bibliothèque
1	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	bibliothèque	bibliothèque	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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la librairie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e2:o4:1
# text = la librairie
1	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	det	_	_
2	librairie	librairie	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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