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title: Determine the conjunction with which a question introduced by pourqu… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the conjunction with which a question introduced by pourquoi is customarily answered. Exam question 3 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 w
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# Exam question 3 · Questions and simple sentences

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Determine the conjunction with which a question introduced by pourquoi is customarily answered.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine, introduce, answer · **To what, where:** conjunction, question

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:e3:1
# text = Determine the conjunction with which a question introduced by pourquoi is customarily answered.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	conjunction	conjunction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pourquoi	pourquoi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 conjunction |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conjunction=Topic |
| 2 | **introduce** | participle |  | a question *not said here* |  |  |  | by pourquoi | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a question |  |  |  | with the conjunction; customarily *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=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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pourquoi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:e3:o1:1
# text = pourquoi
1	pourquoi	pourquoi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	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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parce que

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:e3:o2:1
# text = parce que
1	parce	parce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	que	que	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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quand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:e3:o3:1
# text = quand
1	quand	quand	PROPN	NNP	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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comment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:e3:o4:1
# text = comment
1	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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