---
title: Identify the form of the verb être which corresponds to the pronoun… — Être: to be · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the form of the verb être which corresponds to the pronoun "nous". Exam question 1 of lesson 28 «Être: to be» 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/28-etre-to-be/e1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Être: to be](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/28-etre-to-be/) / e1

# Exam question 1 · Être: to be

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Identify the form of the verb être which corresponds to the pronoun "nous".

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, verb être · **What happens:** identify, correspond, form · **To what, where:** form, verb être

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 1 of lesson 28 «Être: to be» 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/28-etre-to-be/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e1:1
# text = Identify the form of the verb être which corresponds to the pronoun "nous".
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	être	être	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	corresponds	correspond	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pronoun	pronoun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	nous	nous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the form of the verb être |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 2 | **correspond** | present | the verb être |  |  |  |  | to the pronoun | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | the verb être |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
êtes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e1:o1:1
# text = êtes
1	êtes	êtes	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sommes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e1:o2:1
# text = sommes
1	sommes	somme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
suis

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e1:o3:1
# text = suis
1	suis	suis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sont

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e1:o4:1
# text = sont
1	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Être: to be, test 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/28-etre-to-be/t11/)
- next →: [Être: to be, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/28-etre-to-be/e2/)
- ↑ back to [Être: to be](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/28-etre-to-be/)