--- title: Identify the continent upon which the greatest number of French spea… — France and the French-speaking world · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the continent upon which the greatest number of French speakers reside. Exam question 1 of lesson 34 «France and the French-speaking world» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world/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/) / [France and the French-speaking world](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · France and the French-speaking world Identify the continent upon which the greatest number of French speakers reside. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, greatest number · **What happens:** identify, reside · **To what, where:** continent This is exam question 1 of lesson 34 «France and the French-speaking world» 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/34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:e1:1 # text = Identify the continent upon which the greatest number of French speakers reside. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 upon upon ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 reside reside VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the continent | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent continent=Theme | | 2 | **reside** | present | the greatest number of French speakers | | | the continent | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Location | 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} North America ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:e1:o1:1 # text = North America 1 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Asia ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:e1:o2:1 # text = Asia 1 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Africa ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:e1:o3:1 # text = Africa 1 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Europe ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:e1:o4:1 # text = Europe 1 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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