--- title: It is given that the preposition à precedes the masculine article le… — The town and directions · tree and pragmatics description: It is given that the preposition à precedes the masculine article le. State the contracted form required. Exam question 3 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 wa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/22-the-town-and-directions/e3/) [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/) / [The town and directions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/22-the-town-and-directions/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · The town and directions It is given that the preposition à precedes the masculine article le. State the contracted form required. **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** preposition à · **What happens:** give, precede, contract, require · **To what, where:** It, masculine article le, State This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* It is given that the preposition à precedes the masculine article le. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e3:1 # text = It is given that the preposition à precedes the masculine article le. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 preposition preposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 à à NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 precedes precede VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 masculine masculine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 article article NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present · passive | | It | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **precede** | present | the preposition à | the masculine article le | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme le=Co-Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* State the contracted form required. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e3:2 # text = State the contracted form required. 1 State state NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 contracted contract VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 required require VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contract** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **require** | participle · passive | | State | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} au ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e3:o1:1 # text = au 1 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} aux ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e3:o2:1 # text = aux 1 aux aux NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} à le ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e3:o3:1 # text = à le 1 à à ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} à la ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e3:o4:1 # text = à la 1 à à X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` 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. 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