--- title: Identify the occasion on which, in many French households, the princ… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day Fr… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the occasion on which, in many French households, the principal Christmas meal is consumed. Exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day Fr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style Identify the occasion on which, in many French households, the principal Christmas meal is consumed. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, consume · **To what, where:** occasion, many French households, principal Christmas meal This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» 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/32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:e1:1 # text = Identify the occasion on which, in many French households, the principal Christmas meal is consumed. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 occasion occasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 households household NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 principal principal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 consumed consume VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the occasion | | many French households | | | tree rules | | 2 | **consume** | present · passive | | the principal Christmas meal | | | | | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | 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} The morning of 26 December ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:e1:o1:1 # text = The morning of 26 December 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 26 26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The evening of 24 December ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:e1:o2:1 # text = The evening of 24 December 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The evening of 25 December ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:e1:o3:1 # text = The evening of 25 December 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The evening of 6 January ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:e1:o4:1 # text = The evening of 6 January 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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