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title: Determine the verb employed in French for the expression of hunger. — Être: to be · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the verb employed in French for the expression of hunger. Exam question 3 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.
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# Exam question 3 · Être: to be

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Determine the verb employed in French for the expression of hunger.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine, employ · **To what, where:** verb, French

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e3:1
# text = Determine the verb employed in French for the expression of hunger.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the verb |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Topic |
| 2 | **employ** | participle |  | the verb *not said here* |  | French |  | for the expression of hunger | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for expression=Eventuality |

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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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être, as in je suis faim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e3:o1:1
# text = être, as in je suis faim
1	être	être	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
6	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
7	faim	faim	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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aller, as in je vais faim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e3:o2:1
# text = aller, as in je vais faim
1	aller	all	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
6	vais	vais	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	faim	faim	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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avoir, as in j'ai faim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e3:o3:1
# text = avoir, as in j'ai faim
1	avoir	avoir	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	j'ai	j'ai	X	FW	_	6	compound	_	_
6	faim	faim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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faire, as in je fais faim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:e3:o4:1
# text = faire, as in je fais faim
1	faire	faire	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
6	fais	fais	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	faim	faim	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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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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