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title: Identify the form of avoir which corresponds to the pronoun "ils". — Avoir: to have · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the form of avoir which corresponds to the pronoun "ils". Exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Avoir: to have» 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 1 · Avoir: to have

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Identify the form of avoir which corresponds to the pronoun "ils".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, avoir · **What happens:** identify, correspond, form · **To what, where:** form, avoir

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Avoir: to have» 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/29-avoir-to-have/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e1:1
# text = Identify the form of avoir which corresponds to the pronoun "ils".
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	_	5	case	_	_
5	avoir	avoir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	corresponds	correspond	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pronoun	pronoun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ils	ils	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 form of avoir |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 2 | **correspond** | present | avoir |  |  |  |  | to the pronoun | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | avoir |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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avez

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e1:o1:1
# text = avez
1	avez	avez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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ont

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e1:o2:1
# text = ont
1	ont	ont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sont

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e1:o3:1
# text = sont
1	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e1:o4:1
# text = a
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	0	root	_	_
```

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

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