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title: Select the correct rendering of the question "How old are you?" addr… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the correct rendering of the question "How old are you?" addressed to a child. Exam question 2 of lesson 30 «Questions and simple sentences» 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 2 · Questions and simple sentences

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Select the correct rendering of the question "How old are you?" addressed to a child.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select, be, address, render · **To what, where:** correct rendering, question

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 30 «Questions and simple sentences» 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/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:e2:1
# text = Select the correct rendering of the question "How old are you?" addressed to a child.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rendering	rendering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
15	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 correct rendering of the question |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent rendering=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **address** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a child | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **render** |  |  | the question |  |  |  |  | nom rendering «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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Quel âge tu es ?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:e2:o1:1
# text = Quel âge tu es ?
1	Quel	Quel	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	âge	âge	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	tu	tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	es	es	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tu as quelle âge ?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:e2:o2:1
# text = Tu as quelle âge ?
1	Tu	Tu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	quelle	quelle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	âge	âge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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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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Tu as quel âge ?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:e2:o3:1
# text = Tu as quel âge ?
1	Tu	Tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	quel	quel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	âge	âge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tu es quel âge ?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:e2:o4:1
# text = Tu es quel âge ?
1	Tu	Tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
2	es	es	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	quel	quel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	âge	âge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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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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