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Test 2 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French

Emma's cousin nearly falls over laughing when she says vous to his dog. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: fall, laugh, say · To what, where: vous, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Emma's cousin nearly falls over laughing when she says vous to his dog.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emma	Emma	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Emma	case
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 falls	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 falls	advmod
5	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	SCONJ	_	7 laughing	mark
7	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 falls	advcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 says	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 laughing	advcl
11	vous	vous	X	Foreign=Yes	10 says	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 dog	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dog	nmod:poss
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 falls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Emma's cousin					nearly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	gerund	Emma's cousin not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	cousin	vous	Emma's dog				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vous=Topic to dog=Recipient

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Vous to a puppy is like bowing to it; pets get tu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vous	Vous	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bowing	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 puppy	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 puppy	det
4	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Vous	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bowing	aux
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 bowing	mark
7	bowing	bow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bowing	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
11	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	nsubj
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bowing	conj
13	tu	tu	X	Foreign=Yes	12 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	present · progressive	Vous to a puppy		puppy				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme
2	get	present	pets	tu					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tu=Stimulus

Option 2

Dogs in Montreal only understand English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 understand	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Montreal	case
3	Montreal	Montreal	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Dogs	nmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 understand	advmod
5	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	infinitive	Dogs in Montreal	English					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer english=Stimulus

Option 3

She should have said madame to the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	aux
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	madame	madame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 dog	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should · perfect	She	madame	the dog				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent madame=Topic to dog=Recipient

Option 4

Vous is a rude word that you must never say to dogs in Quebec

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vous	Vous	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 say	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 say	advmod
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 word	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 dogs	case
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Quebec	case
14	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Vous	a rude word					tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	must	you	a rude word	dogs	Quebec			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to dog=Recipient

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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