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title: Did the barber really say something French? — Sicilian Stories, Catherine and Her De… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the barber really say something French? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1641 «Sicilian Stories, Catherine and Her Destiny, part 30: Catherine gets a silken ball from her Destiny's sister» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 11 · ★ · Sicilian Stories, Catherine and Her Destiny, part 30: Cath…

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Did the barber really say something French?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** barber · **What happens:** do, say · **To what, where:** barber, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1641 «Sicilian Stories, Catherine and Her Destiny, part 30: Catherine gets a silken ball from her Destiny's sister» of the books 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1641-pg5615-part30/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1641-pg5615-part30:t11:1
# text = Did the barber really say something French?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the barber |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barber=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the barber *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, il faut souffrir pour etre belle, lol, and then he said it again louder for the whole room

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1641-pg5615-part30:t11:o1:1
# text = Yeah, il faut souffrir pour etre belle, lol, and then he said it again louder for the whole room
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	il	il	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
4	faut	faut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	souffrir	souffrir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	etre	etre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	belle	belle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	ccomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **souffrir** |  | il |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour** | present |  | etre belle |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belle=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | he | belle |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, il faut boire pour etre belle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1641-pg5615-part30:t11:o2:1
# text = Nah, il faut boire pour etre belle
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	il	il	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
4	faut	faut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	boire	boire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	etre	etre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	belle	belle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boire** |  | il |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour** | present |  | etre belle |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belle=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, il faut souffrir pour etre belle, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1641-pg5615-part30:t11:o3:1
# text = Yeah, il faut souffrir pour etre belle, lol
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	il	il	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
4	faut	faut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	souffrir	souffrir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	etre	etre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	belle	belle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **souffrir** |  | il |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour** | present |  | etre belle |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belle=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, il faut souffrir pour etre riche

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1641-pg5615-part30:t11:o4:1
# text = Yeah, il faut souffrir pour etre riche
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	il	il	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
4	faut	faut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	souffrir	souffrir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	etre	etre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	riche	riche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **souffrir** |  | il |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour** | present |  | etre riche |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riche=Patient |

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**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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