--- title: Select the expression employed by French-speaking Belgians to denote… — France and the French-speaking world · tree and pragmatics description: Select the expression employed by French-speaking Belgians to denote the number ninety. Exam question 2 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 wro --- [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/e2/) [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/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · France and the French-speaking world Select the expression employed by French-speaking Belgians to denote the number ninety. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select, employ, speak, denote · **To what, where:** expression, Belgians, number ninety · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 2 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/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:e2:1 # text = Select the expression employed by French-speaking Belgians to denote the number ninety. 1 Select select VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 employed employ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 9 Belgians Belgian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 denote denote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 ninety ninety NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the expression | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Theme | | 2 | **employ** | participle | | the expression *not said here* | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | Belgians | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **denote** | to-infinitive | | the number ninety | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ninety=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 {#o1} quatre-vingt-dix ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:e2:o1:1 # text = quatre-vingt-dix 1 quatre quatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 vingt vingt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 dix dix NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} neuvante ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:e2:o2:1 # text = neuvante 1 neuvante neuvante X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} huitante ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:e2:o3:1 # text = huitante 1 huitante huitante X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} nonante ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:e2:o4:1 # text = nonante 1 nonante nonante X FW Foreign=Yes 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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