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Test 9 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French

Cooper is lowkey offended when his teacher says "À vos souhaits !" ("Lowkey" means a bit.) What did she mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cooper, teacher, Lowkey · What happens: be, say, mean · To what, where: À vos, bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Cooper is lowkey offended when his teacher says "À vos souhaits !"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooper	cooper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offended	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 offended	cop
3	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 offended	amod
4	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 says	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teacher	nmod:poss
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 offended	advcl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 vos	punct
10	À	À	X	Foreign=Yes	11 vos	compound
11	vos	vos	X	Foreign=Yes	8 says	obj
12	souhaits	souhaits	X	Foreign=Yes	11 vos	flat:foreign
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 offended	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 offended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cooper					offended property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	his teacher	À vos					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vos=Topic

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: ("Lowkey" means a bit.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Lowkey	punct
3	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Lowkey	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Lowkey	a bit					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic

Sentence 3: What did she mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	Lowkey						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

You are wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wet	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wet	cop
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					wet property	tree rules

Option 2

Be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Be	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Your voice is funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 voice	nmod:poss
2	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 funny	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	cop
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your voice					funny property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bless you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Bless	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless	imperative	you not said here	you					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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