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Test 4 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French

Poppy says "s'il te plaît" to the waiter. Her dad says, "Close, but he's not your mate." Which please was right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Poppy, dad · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: waiter, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Poppy says "s'il te plaît" to the waiter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poppy	poppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 plaît	punct
4	s'il	s'il	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plaît	compound
5	te	te	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plaît	amod
6	plaît	plaît	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 plaît	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 waiter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 waiter	det
10	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Poppy		the waiter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to waiter=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: Her dad says, "Close, but he's not your mate."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Close	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Close	punct
6	Close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 mate	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mate	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mate	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 mate	advmod
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mate	nmod:poss
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Close	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Close	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Close	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Poppy's dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	present	dad	your mate					tree rules

Sentence 3: Which please was right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 right	nsubj
2	please	please	INTJ	_	4 right	discourse
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						right property	tree rules

The options

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

s'il vous plaît

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	s'il	s'il	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	vous	vous	X	Foreign=Yes	1 s'il	flat:foreign
3	plaît	plaît	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 s'il	flat:foreign

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

Option 2

s'il vous plaisez

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	s'il	s'il	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	vous	vous	X	Foreign=Yes	1 s'il	flat:foreign
3	plaisez	plaisez	X	Foreign=Yes	1 s'il	dep

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

Option 3

s'il tu plaît

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	s'il	s'il	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	tu	tu	X	Foreign=Yes	1 s'il	flat:foreign
3	plaît	plaît	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 s'il	flat:foreign

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

Option 4

s'il te plaît

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	s'il	s'il	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	te	te	X	_	1 s'il	advmod
3	plaît	plaît	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 te	goeswith

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

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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