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title: Poppy answers "Le chat" when asked the day. Her friend whispers, "No… — Days of the week and months · tree and pragmatics
description: Poppy answers "Le chat" when asked the day. Her friend whispers, "Not chat, day!" What would a French kid say? Test 8 of lesson 10 «Days of the week and months» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 8 · Days of the week and months

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Poppy answers "Le chat" when asked the day. Her friend whispers, "Not chat, day!" What would a French kid say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Poppy, friend, French kid · **What happens:** answer, ask, whisper, say · **To what, where:** Le chat, chat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 of lesson 10 «Days of the week and months» 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/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Poppy answers "Le chat" when asked the day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:10-days-of-the-week-and-months:t8:1
# text = Poppy answers "Le chat" when asked the day.
1	Poppy	Poppy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Poppy | Le chat |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent chat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle | Poppy *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Her friend whispers, "Not chat, day!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:10-days-of-the-week-and-months:t8:2
# text = Her friend whispers, "Not chat, day!"
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	whispers	whisper	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | Poppy's friend | chat and day |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What would a French kid say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:10-days-of-the-week-and-months:t8:3
# text = What would a French kid say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | a French kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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On est mardi.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:10-days-of-the-week-and-months:t8:o1:1
# text = On est mardi.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	est	est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
3	mardi	mardi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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C'est jour mardi.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:10-days-of-the-week-and-months:t8:o2:1
# text = C'est jour mardi.
1	C'est	C'est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
2	jour	jour	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	mardi	mardi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Il fait mardi.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:10-days-of-the-week-and-months:t8:o3:1
# text = Il fait mardi.
1	Il	Il	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fait	fait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mardi	mardi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fait** | present | Il | mardi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Je suis mardi.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:10-days-of-the-week-and-months:t8:o4:1
# text = Je suis mardi.
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	mardi	mardi	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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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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