--- title: Select the correct rendering of the statement "I engage in cycling"… — Hobbies and sport · tree and pragmatics description: Select the correct rendering of the statement "I engage in cycling" in the French language. Exam question 2 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/e2/) [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/) / [Hobbies and sport](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Hobbies and sport Select the correct rendering of the statement "I engage in cycling" in the French language. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** select, engage, render · **To what, where:** correct rendering, cycling, statement · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 2 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/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:e2:1 # text = Select the correct rendering of the statement "I engage in cycling" in the French language. 1 Select select VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 correct correct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 rendering rendering NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 statement statement NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 engage engage VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 cycling cycling NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the correct rendering of the statement | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent rendering=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **engage** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | in cycling *goal*; in the French language | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in cycling=Goal | | 3 | **render** | | | the statement | | | | | nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} Je joue au vélo ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:e2:o1:1 # text = Je joue au vélo 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 joue joue X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 au au X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 vélo vélo X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Je fais au vélo ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:e2:o2:1 # text = Je fais au vélo 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fais fai VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 vélo vélo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fai** | present | Je | au vélo | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Je fais du vélo ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:e2:o3:1 # text = Je fais du vélo 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 fais fais X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 du du X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 vélo vélo X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Je joue du vélo ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:e2:o4:1 # text = Je joue du vélo 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 joue joue X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 du du X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 vélo vélo 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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