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title: Leo writes "vingt vingt-six". His teacher says, "Yeah nah, French sa… — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Leo writes "vingt vingt-six". His teacher says, "Yeah nah, French says two thousand twenty-six." ("Yeah nah" means no.) What's right? Test 6 · ★ 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 optio
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# Test 6 · ★ · Dates and birthdays

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Leo writes "vingt vingt-six". His teacher says, "Yeah nah, French says two thousand twenty-six." ("Yeah nah" means no.) What's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Leo, teacher, French, no. · **What happens:** write, say, mean, be · **To what, where:** vingt vingt, no. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Leo writes "vingt vingt-six".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t6:1
# text = Leo writes "vingt vingt-six".
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	vingt	vingt	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Leo | vingt vingt |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vingt=Theme |

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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:* His teacher says, "Yeah nah, French says two thousand twenty-six."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t6:2
# text = His teacher says, "Yeah nah, French says two thousand twenty-six."
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Leo's teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | French |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* ("Yeah nah" means no.) What's right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t6:3
# text = ("Yeah nah" means no.) What's right?
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  | no. |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no.=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | no. |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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deux milles vingt-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t6:o1:1
# text = deux milles vingt-six
1	deux	deux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	milles	mille	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mille** | present | deux | vingt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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vingt cent vingt-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t6:o2:1
# text = vingt cent vingt-six
1	vingt	vingt	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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deux mille et vingt-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t6:o3:1
# text = deux mille et vingt-six
1	deux	deux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
2	mille	mille	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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deux mille vingt-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t6:o4:1
# text = deux mille vingt-six
1	deux	deux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	mille	mille	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	vingt	vingt	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

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