Test 3 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French
One kid answers Amir: "Tous les trois ?" ("All three of us?") What does Amir need to learn?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: One kid, Amir · What happens: answer, need, learn · To what, where: Tous, Amir
This is test 3 · ★ 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: One kid answers Amir: "Tous les trois ?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kid | nummod |
| 2 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answers | nsubj |
| 3 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Amir | Amir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answers | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tous | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tous | punct |
| 7 | Tous | Tous | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 answers | obj |
| 8 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Tous | flat:foreign |
| 9 | trois | trois | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Tous | flat:foreign |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 answers | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 answers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present | One kid | Tous | Amir | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent amir=Theme tous=Eventuality |
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: ("All three of us?")
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 three | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 three | punct |
| 3 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 three | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 three | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 three | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 three | punct |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 three | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What does Amir need to learn?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 need | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 3 | Amir | Amir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 learn | mark |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 need | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · do-support | Amir | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | learn not said to happen | to-infinitive | Amir not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
You must always count people in French first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 count | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 count | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 count | advmod |
| 4 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 count | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 French | case |
| 7 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 people | nmod |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 count | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | must | You | people | French | always, first property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Vous is the you for a group, even of friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vous | Vous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 group | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 group | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 group | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 group | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friends | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 friends | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 group | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Vous | for the group and friends | tree rules |
Option 3
Tu is the you for a group of three or more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 group | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 group | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 group | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 group | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 three | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 group | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 more | cc |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 three | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Tu | for the group; of three | tree rules |
Option 4
French kids only play in pairs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kids | amod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 play | advmod |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pairs | case |
| 6 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | French kids | pairs | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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