Exam question 4 · Questions and simple sentences

Ascertain the position of the elements ne and pas in relation to the verb in a negative statement.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: position, relation

This is exam question 4 of lesson 30 «Questions and simple sentences» 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

both after the verb

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

Option 2

both before the verb

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

ne before the verb, pas after it

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

Option 4

pas before the verb, ne after it

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

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