--- title: Determine the conjunction appropriately employed to join a statement… — Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime… · tree and pragmatics description: Determine the conjunction appropriately employed to join a statement of preference to a statement of dislike. Exam question 4 of lesson 24 «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/e4/) [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/) / [Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas Determine the conjunction appropriately employed to join a statement of preference to a statement of dislike. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, conjunction · **What happens:** determine, employ, join, state · **To what, where:** conjunction, statement, preference, dislike This is exam question 4 of lesson 24 «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» 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/24-likes-and-dislikes/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:e4:1 # text = Determine the conjunction appropriately employed to join a statement of preference to a statement of dislike. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 conjunction conjunction NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 appropriately appropriately ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 employed employ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 statement statement NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 preference preference NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 statement statement NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 dislike dislike NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the conjunction | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conjunction=Topic | | 2 | **employ** | past | the conjunction *not said here* | | | | | appropriately *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 3 | **join** | to-infinitive | the conjunction *not said here* | a statement of preference | | | | to a statement of dislike | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent statement=Patient to statement=Co-Patient | | 4 | **state** | | | preference | | | | | nom statement «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **state** | | | dislike | | | | | nom statement «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} mais ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:e4:o1:1 # text = mais 1 mais mais X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} pourquoi ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:e4:o2:1 # text = pourquoi 1 pourquoi pourquoi X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} donc ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:e4:o3:1 # text = donc 1 donc donc NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} et ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:e4:o4:1 # text = et 1 et et X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` 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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