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title: Determine the date of composition of the song "Il pleut, il pleut, b… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the date of composition of the song "Il pleut, il pleut, bergère". Exam question 4 of lesson 31 «Songs and rhymes» 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 · Songs and rhymes

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Determine the date of composition of the song "Il pleut, il pleut, bergère".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine · **To what, where:** date

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 31 «Songs and rhymes» 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/31-songs-and-rhymes/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:e4:1
# text = Determine the date of composition of the song "Il pleut, il pleut, bergère".
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Il	Il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	pleut	pleut	X	FW	_	10	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	il	il	X	FW	_	14	compound	_	_
14	pleut	pleut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bergère	bergère	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	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 date of composition of the song |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic |

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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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1980

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:e4:o1:1
# text = 1980
1	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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1680

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:e4:o2:1
# text = 1680
1	1680	1680	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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1780

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:e4:o3:1
# text = 1780
1	1780	1780	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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1880

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:e4:o4:1
# text = 1880
1	1880	1880	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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