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title: Select the expression which correctly conveys, in French, the condit… — Avoir: to have · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the expression which correctly conveys, in French, the condition of being thirsty. Exam question 2 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 right.
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# Exam question 2 · Avoir: to have

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Select the expression which correctly conveys, in French, the condition of being thirsty.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, expression · **What happens:** select, convey, be · **To what, where:** expression, French

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e2:1
# text = Select the expression which correctly conveys, in French, the condition of being thirsty.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	conveys	convey	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	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
15	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the expression |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Theme |
| 2 | **convey** | present | the expression | French |  |  |  | correctly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent french=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thirsty *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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J'ai soif

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e2:o1:1
# text = J'ai soif
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	soif	soif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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J'ai faim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e2:o2:1
# text = J'ai faim
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	faim	faim	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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Je suis soif

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e2:o3:1
# text = Je suis soif
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	soif	soif	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Je soif

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e2:o4:1
# text = Je soif
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	soif	soif	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	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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