--- title: ★★★ An American penpal writes 12/04 for her birthday, month first. H… — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ An American penpal writes 12/04 for her birthday, month first. How should a French friend say it? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 11 «Dates and birthdays» 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 was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/t12/) [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/) / [Dates and birthdays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Dates and birthdays ★★★ An American penpal writes 12/04 for her birthday, month first. How should a French friend say it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★, French friend · **What happens:** write, say · **To what, where:** 12/04, penpal · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 11 «Dates and birthdays» 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/11-dates-and-birthdays/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ An American penpal writes 12/04 for her birthday, month first. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t12:1 # text = ★★★ An American penpal writes 12/04 for her birthday, month first. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 penpal penpal NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 7 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 12/04 12/04 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | present | ★ ★ a American penpal | 12/04 | | | | for ★'s birthday and month | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent 12/04=Result for birthday=Beneficiary | 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:* How should a French friend say it? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t12:2 # text = How should a French friend say it? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 should should 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 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | a French friend | penpal | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} le quatre décembre ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t12:o1:1 # text = le quatre décembre 1 le le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 quatre quatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 décembre décembre NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} le quatre avril ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t12:o2:1 # text = le quatre avril 1 le le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 quatre quatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 avril avril NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} le douze avril ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t12:o3:1 # text = le douze avril 1 le le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 douze douze NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 avril avril NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} le premier décembre ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t12:o4:1 # text = le premier décembre 1 le le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 premier premier NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 décembre décembre NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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