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title: Identify the construction prescribed in French for the playing of a… — Hobbies and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the construction prescribed in French for the playing of a musical instrument. Exam question 1 of lesson 23 «Hobbies and sport» 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 1 · Hobbies and sport

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Identify the construction prescribed in French for the playing of a musical instrument.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, musical instrument · **What happens:** identify, prescribe, play · **To what, where:** construction, French

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 23 «Hobbies and sport» 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/23-hobbies-and-sport/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:e1:1
# text = Identify the construction prescribed in French for the playing of a musical instrument.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	playing	playing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the construction |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent construction=Theme |
| 2 | **prescribe** | participle |  | the construction *not said here* |  | French |  | for the playing of a musical instrument | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** |  | a musical instrument |  |  |  |  |  | nom playing «act 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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jouer à

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:e1:o1:1
# text = jouer à
1	jouer	jouer	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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faire à

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:e1:o2:1
# text = faire à
1	faire	faire	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	à	à	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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jouer de

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:e1:o3:1
# text = jouer de
1	jouer	jouer	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	de	de	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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jouer sans préposition

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:e1:o4:1
# text = jouer sans préposition
1	jouer	jouer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sans	san	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	préposition	préposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **san** | present | jouer | préposition |  |  |  |  | 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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