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title: The teacher tells Ava, "Use vous, cheeky." Why? — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: The teacher tells Ava, "Use vous, cheeky." Why? Test 3 · ★ 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.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Dates and birthdays

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The teacher tells Ava, "Use vous, cheeky." Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** teacher · **What happens:** tell, use · **To what, where:** Ava, vous · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The teacher tells Ava, "Use vous, cheeky."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t3:1
# text = The teacher tells Ava, "Use vous, cheeky."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	vous	vous	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the teacher |  | Ava |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent ava=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **use** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | vous |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vous=Patient |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t3:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Ava should have spoken English

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t3:o1:1
# text = Ava should have spoken English
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | should · perfect · passive |  | Ava |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Ava said ton to a teacher; votre is polite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t3:o2:1
# text = Ava said ton to a teacher; votre is polite
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ton	ton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	votre	votre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ava | ton | a teacher |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ton=Topic to teacher=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | votre |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ava said the wrong month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t3:o3:1
# text = Ava said the wrong month
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ava |  |  |  | month |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Teachers don't have birthdays in France

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t3:o4:1
# text = Teachers don't have birthdays in France
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | Teachers | birthdays |  | France |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=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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