--- title: Isla's gran orders "a wee croy-SANT, ken." ("Ken" means you know.) W… — Silent letters: why French doesn't say… · tree and pragmatics description: Isla's gran orders "a wee croy-SANT, ken." ("Ken" means you know.) What should she say? Test 10 of lesson 1 «Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [Silent letters: why French doesn't say…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes/) / t10 # Test 10 · Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes Isla's gran orders "a wee croy-SANT, ken." ("Ken" means you know.) What should she say? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** gran, Ken, you · **What happens:** order, mean, know, say · **To what, where:** wee croy · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 of lesson 1 «Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Isla's gran orders "a wee croy-SANT, ken." ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes:t10:1 # text = Isla's gran orders "a wee croy-SANT, ken." 1 Isla Isla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 orders order VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 croy croy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 SANT SANT PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ken ken NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **order** | present | Isla's gran | a wee croy and ken | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croy=Theme | 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:* ("Ken" means you know.) ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes:t10:2 # text = ("Ken" means you know.) 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Ken Ken PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Ken | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | *Sentence 3:* What should she say? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes:t10:3 # text = What should she say? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | ken | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} "uhn croy-SAHN" ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes:t10:o1:1 # text = "uhn croy-SAHN" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 uhn uhn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 croy croy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:desc _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 SAHN SAHN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} "uhn krwa-SANT" ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes:t10:o2:1 # text = "uhn krwa-SANT" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 uhn uhn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 krwa krwa NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 SANT SANT PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} "uhn kwa-SAHNT" ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes:t10:o3:1 # text = "uhn kwa-SAHNT" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 uhn uhn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 kwa kwa NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 SAHNT sahnt NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} "uhn krwa-SAHN" ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes:t10:o4:1 # text = "uhn krwa-SAHN" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 uhn uhn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 krwa krwa NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:desc _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 SAHN SAHN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` 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. 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