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Test 10 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French

Grace calls a young woman in a shop mademoiselle and asks, "Was that rude, like?" What's the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grace, best advice · What happens: call, ask, be · To what, where: young woman, shop mademoiselle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 5 «Tu or vous? Manners in French» of the French course of Mova's primary school. 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

Sentence 1: Grace calls a young woman in a shop mademoiselle and asks, "Was that rude, like?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 calls	nsubj
2	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 mademoiselle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mademoiselle	det
8	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mademoiselle	compound
9	mademoiselle	mademoiselle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asks	cc
11	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 calls	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rude	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 rude	punct
14	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rude	cop
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 rude	mark
16	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 calls	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	16 rude	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 rude	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 rude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: ask	present	Grace	a young woman		a shop mademoiselle			tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present	Grace not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past						rude property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: What's the best advice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 advice	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 advice	amod
5	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best advice						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Use madame for grown-up women; it's always safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	madame	madame	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 women	case
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 women	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 grown	compound:prt
7	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Use	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 safe	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 safe	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 safe	advmod
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Use	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	madame				for grown women	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent madame=Theme for woman=Eventuality
2	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	madame					always, safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Never speak to shop staff at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 speak	advmod
2	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 staff	mark
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staff	compound
5	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speak	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here			all			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Call every woman ma chérie instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 chérie	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ma	compound
4	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chérie	compound
5	chérie	chérie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	every ma chérie				instead property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chérie=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Always use mademoiselle for young women, it's the polite rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	alway	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mademoiselle	mademoiselle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 women	case
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 women	amod
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rule	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rule	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rule	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rule	det
11	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rule	amod
12	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Always	mademoiselle				for young women	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent mademoiselle=Theme for woman=Eventuality
2	is a	present	mademoiselle	the polite rule					tree rules

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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