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title: Determine the form employed to describe hair, in the statement "she… — Avoir: to have · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the form employed to describe hair, in the statement "she has long hair". Exam question 4 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 4 · Avoir: to have

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Determine the form employed to describe hair, in the statement "she has long hair".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, form · **What happens:** determine, employ, describe, have · **To what, where:** statement, hair, long hair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e4:1
# text = Determine the form employed to describe hair, in the statement "she has long hair".
1	Determine	determine	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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	employed	employ	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 statement |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **employ** | past | the form |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **describe** | to-infinitive | the form *not said here* | hair |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | form | long hair |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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Elle à les cheveux longs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e4:o1:1
# text = Elle à les cheveux longs
1	Elle	Elle	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	cheveux	cheveux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	longs	long	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Elle a les cheveux long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e4:o2:1
# text = Elle a les cheveux long
1	Elle	Elle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cheveux	cheveux	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheveux** | present | a Elle les |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Elle est les cheveux longs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e4:o3:1
# text = Elle est les cheveux longs
1	Elle	Elle	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
2	est	est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	cheveux	cheveux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	longs	long	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Elle a les cheveux longs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:e4:o4:1
# text = Elle a les cheveux longs
1	Elle	Elle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	1	det	_	_
3	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	cheveux	cheveux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	longs	long	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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