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title: Ascertain the French expression signifying "I am hungry". — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the French expression signifying "I am hungry". Exam question 4 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 right.
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# Exam question 4 · French compared with English

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Ascertain the French expression signifying "I am hungry".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, French expression, I · **What happens:** ascertain, signify, be · **To what, where:** French expression · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the French expression signifying "I am hungry".
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	signifying	signify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the French expression |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Topic |
| 2 | **signify** | gerund | the French expression *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

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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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J'ai faim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:e4:o1:1
# text = J'ai faim
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	faim	faim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Je suis fini

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:e4:o2:1
# text = Je suis fini
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	fini	fini	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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J'ai froid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:e4:o3:1
# text = J'ai froid
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	froid	froid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Je suis faim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:e4:o4:1
# text = Je suis faim
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	faim	faim	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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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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