--- title: Determine the date upon which la Chandeleur is observed. — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day Fr… · tree and pragmatics description: Determine the date upon which la Chandeleur is observed. Exam question 3 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 option; Mova's choice was right. --- [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/e3/) [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/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style Determine the date upon which la Chandeleur is observed. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine, observe · **To what, where:** date, la This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:e3:1 # text = Determine the date upon which la Chandeleur is observed. 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 upon upon ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obl _ _ 6 la la X GW _ 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 Chandeleur Chandeleur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 goeswith _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 observed observe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the date | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic | | 2 | **observe** | present · passive | | la | | | | upon the date | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 2 February ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:e3:o1:1 # text = 2 February 1 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 1 April ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:e3:o2:1 # text = 1 April 1 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 6 January ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:e3:o3:1 # text = 6 January 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 24 December ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:e3:o4:1 # text = 24 December 1 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 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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