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title: Isla's teacher says, "Grand, but which month?" ("Grand" means good.)… — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Isla's teacher says, "Grand, but which month?" ("Grand" means good.) Which is a full answer? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Dates and birthdays

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Isla's teacher says, "Grand, but which month?" ("Grand" means good.) Which is a full answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** teacher, Grand · **What happens:** say, mean, be · **To what, where:** Grand, full answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Isla's teacher says, "Grand, but which month?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t8:1
# text = Isla's teacher says, "Grand, but which month?"
1	Isla	Isla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Isla's teacher | Grand |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grand=Topic |

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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:* ("Grand" means good.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t8:2
# text = ("Grand" means good.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	_	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	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Grand |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* Which is a full answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t8:3
# text = Which is a full answer?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a full answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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C'est le octobre quatorze.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t8:o1:1
# text = C'est le octobre quatorze.
1	C'est	C'est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
2	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
3	octobre	octobre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	quatorze	quatorze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 quatorze.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t8:o2:1
# text = C'est quatorze.
1	C'est	c'	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	quatorze	quatorze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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C'est le quatorze octobre.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t8:o3:1
# text = C'est le quatorze octobre.
1	C'est	C'est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
2	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	quatorze	quatorze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	octobre	octobre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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C'est le quatorzième.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:11-dates-and-birthdays:t8:o4:1
# text = C'est le quatorzième.
1	C'est	C'est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
2	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	quatorzième	quatorzième	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.

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