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title: Pursuant to a sign reading "Sortie", determine the function of the d… — The town and directions · tree and pragmatics
description: Pursuant to a sign reading "Sortie", determine the function of the door so designated. Exam question 4 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 right.
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# Exam question 4 · The town and directions

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Pursuant to a sign reading "Sortie", determine the function of the door so designated.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine, designate · **To what, where:** function

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e4:1
# text = Pursuant to a sign reading "Sortie", determine the function of the door so designated.
1	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Sortie	sortie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	function	function	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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* | the function of the door |  |  |  | to a sign reading and Sortie; pursuant *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent function=Topic |
| 2 | **designate** | participle |  | the function of the door *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The exit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e4:o1:1
# text = The exit
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	exit	exit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A door for sorting goods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e4:o2:1
# text = A door for sorting goods
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	sorting	sort	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | gerund | a door *not said here* | goods |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The entrance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e4:o3:1
# text = The entrance
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A door that must be pushed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:e4:o4:1
# text = A door that must be pushed
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | must · passive |  | a door |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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