--- title: Select the sentence which correctly expresses, in respect of a femal… — Être: to be · tree and pragmatics description: Select the sentence which correctly expresses, in respect of a female Scottish speaker, her nationality. Exam question 2 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 right. --- [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/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/) / [Être: to be](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/28-etre-to-be/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Être: to be Select the sentence which correctly expresses, in respect of a female Scottish speaker, her nationality. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, sentence · **What happens:** select, express, respect · **To what, where:** sentence, respect, female Scottish speaker This is exam question 2 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/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e2:1 # text = Select the sentence which correctly expresses, in respect of a female Scottish speaker, her nationality. 1 Select select VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 correctly correctly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 expresses express VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 nationality nationality NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ 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 sentence | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme | | 2 | **express** | present | the sentence | respect of a female Scottish speaker and her nationality | | | | correctly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Theme | | 3 | **respect** | | | a female Scottish speaker and her nationality | | | | | nom respect «cognition 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} Je suis écossaise ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e2:o1:1 # text = Je suis écossaise 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 2 nsubj _ _ 2 suis sui VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 écossaise écossaise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sui** | present | Je | écossaise | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} J'ai écossaise ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e2:o2:1 # text = J'ai écossaise 1 J'ai J'ai X FW _ 2 compound _ _ 2 écossaise écossaise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Je suis Écossaise ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e2:o3:1 # text = Je suis Écossaise 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 2 nsubj _ _ 2 suis sui VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Écossaise Écossaise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sui** | present | Je | Écossaise | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Je suis écossais ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e2:o4:1 # text = Je suis écossais 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 3 nsubj _ _ 2 suis suis X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 écossais écossai NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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