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title: Identify the plural form of the noun "gâteau" in accordance with the… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the plural form of the noun "gâteau" in accordance with the rules of French orthography. Exam question 1 of lesson 26 «Plurals: les, des and silent s» 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
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# Exam question 1 · Plurals: les, des and silent s

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Identify the plural form of the noun "gâteau" in accordance with the rules of French orthography.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, French orthography · **What happens:** identify, form, rule · **To what, where:** plural form, accordance, noun

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 26 «Plurals: les, des and silent s» 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/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:e1:1
# text = Identify the plural form of the noun "gâteau" in accordance with the rules of French orthography.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	form	form	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	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	gâteau	gâteau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	accordance	accordance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	orthography	orthography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 plural form of the noun |  | accordance |  | with the rules of French orthography | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 2 | **form** |  |  | the noun |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **rule** |  | French orthography |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition 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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gâteaus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:e1:o1:1
# text = gâteaus
1	gâteaus	gâteau	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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gâtaux

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:e1:o2:1
# text = gâtaux
1	gâtaux	gâtaux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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gâteauxs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:e1:o3:1
# text = gâteauxs
1	gâteauxs	gâteaux	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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gâteaux

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:e1:o4:1
# text = gâteaux
1	gâteaux	gâteaux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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