--- title: The nurse asks Josh, "J'ai mal au ventre ?" Why au? — The body · tree and pragmatics description: The nurse asks Josh, "J'ai mal au ventre ?" Why au? Test 3 of lesson 16 «The body» 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/16-the-body/t3/) [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/) / [The body](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/16-the-body/) / t3 # Test 3 · The body The nurse asks Josh, "J'ai mal au ventre ?" Why au? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nurse · **What happens:** ask · **To what, where:** J'ai, Josh This is test 3 of lesson 16 «The body» 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/16-the-body/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* The nurse asks Josh, "J'ai mal au ventre ?" ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t3:1 # text = The nurse asks Josh, "J'ai mal au ventre ?" 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Josh Josh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 J'ai J'ai X FW Foreign=Yes 3 obj _ _ 8 mal mal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 ventre ventre NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the nurse | J'ai | Josh | | | | tree rules | 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:* Why au? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t3:2 # text = Why au? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 2 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} à + le becomes au ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t3:o1:1 # text = à + le becomes au 1 à à NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 + + SYM SYM _ 1 compound _ _ 3 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | present | à le | au | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} Josh should say à le ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t3:o2:1 # text = Josh should say à le 1 Josh Josh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 à à ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | Josh | à le | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent le=Topic | ### Option 3 {#o3} au means "very" ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t3:o3:1 # text = au means "very" 1 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | au | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} au is used for boys only ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t3:o4:1 # text = au is used for boys only 1 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present · passive | | au | | | | for boys | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for boy=Eventuality | **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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