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title: Identify the numeral denoted by the expression quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. — Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and qu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the numeral denoted by the expression quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. Exam question 2 of lesson 8 «Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts» 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.
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# Exam question 2 · Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts

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Identify the numeral denoted by the expression quatre-vingt-dix-neuf.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, denote · **To what, where:** numeral

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 8 «Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts» 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/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts:e2:1
# text = Identify the numeral denoted by the expression quatre-vingt-dix-neuf.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	numeral	numeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	denoted	denote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
7	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	neuf	neuf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the numeral |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent numeral=Theme |
| 2 | **denote** | participle |  | the numeral *not said here* |  |  |  | by the quatre vingt dix neuf | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Ninety-nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts:e2:o1:1
# text = Ninety-nine
1	Ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eighty-nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts:e2:o2:1
# text = Eighty-nine
1	Eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Seventy-nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts:e2:o3:1
# text = Seventy-nine
1	Seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Four hundred and nineteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts:e2:o4:1
# text = Four hundred and nineteen
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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