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title: Ella says, "Sweet as, but it's gold!" ("Sweet as" means great.) What… — Pets and animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Ella says, "Sweet as, but it's gold!" ("Sweet as" means great.) What is the French for her goldfish? Test 3 of lesson 15 «Pets and animals» 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 3 · Pets and animals

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Ella says, "Sweet as, but it's gold!" ("Sweet as" means great.) What is the French for her goldfish?

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

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This is test 3 of lesson 15 «Pets and animals» 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/15-pets-and-animals/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ella says, "Sweet as, but it's gold!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:15-pets-and-animals:t3:1
# text = Ella says, "Sweet as, but it's gold!"
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Ella |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | it | gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* ("Sweet as" means great.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:15-pets-and-animals:t3:2
# text = ("Sweet as" means great.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 3:* What is the French for her goldfish?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:15-pets-and-animals:t3:3
# text = What is the French for her goldfish?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for Ella's goldfish; french *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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un poisson doré rouge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:15-pets-and-animals:t3:o1:1
# text = un poisson doré rouge
1	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poisson	poisson	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
3	doré	doré	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rouge	rouge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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un or poisson

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:15-pets-and-animals:t3:o2:1
# text = un or poisson
1	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	poisson	poisson	NOUN	NN	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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un poisson rouge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:15-pets-and-animals:t3:o3:1
# text = un poisson rouge
1	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poisson	poisson	NOUN	NN	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	rouge	rouge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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un poisson or

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:15-pets-and-animals:t3:o4:1
# text = un poisson or
1	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poisson	poisson	NOUN	NN	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
```

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

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