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title: Identify the literal sense of the French numeral "quatre-vingts". — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the literal sense of the French numeral "quatre-vingts". Exam question 2 of lesson 35 «French compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · French compared with English

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Identify the literal sense of the French numeral "quatre-vingts".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, sense · **To what, where:** literal sense, French numeral

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 35 «French compared with English» of the language 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/language/35-french-compared-with-english/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:e2:1
# text = Identify the literal sense of the French numeral "quatre-vingts".
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	literal	literal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	numeral	numeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	vingts	vingt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 literal sense of the French numeral |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sense=Theme |
| 2 | **sense** |  |  | the French numeral |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Forty-eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:e2:o1:1
# text = Forty-eight
1	Forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	eight	eight	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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Four tens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:e2:o2:1
# text = Four tens
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Four twenties

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:e2:o3:1
# text = Four twenties
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	twenties	twenty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eight tens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:e2:o4:1
# text = Eight tens
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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