Exam question 4 · Hobbies and sport

Determine the form of the verb required subsequent to j'aime in the statement "I like dancing".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, verb, I · What happens: determine, require, like, dance · To what, where: form, statement · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 23 «Hobbies and sport» 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.

The question

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

dance, the English form

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

Option 2

danse, the present form

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

danser, the base form

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

Option 4

dansant, the -ing form

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

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