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title: Jessica says, "It's just me hair, like, one hair-do." Why is les che… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: Jessica says, "It's just me hair, like, one hair-do." Why is les cheveux plural? Test 4 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · The body

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Jessica says, "It's just me hair, like, one hair-do." Why is les cheveux plural?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jessica, It, les · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** hair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jessica says, "It's just me hair, like, one hair-do."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t4:1
# text = Jessica says, "It's just me hair, like, one hair-do."
1	Jessica	Jessica	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	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
14	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jessica |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | It | hair |  |  |  |  | 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:* Why is les cheveux plural?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t4:2
# text = Why is les cheveux plural?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
4	cheveux	cheveux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
5	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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** | present | les |  |  |  |  | plural *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Jessica has two hair-dos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t4:o1:1
# text = Jessica has two hair-dos
1	Jessica	Jessica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	dos	do	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Jessica | two hair dos |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Only long hair is plural

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t4:o2:1
# text = Only long hair is plural
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | long hair |  |  |  |  | plural *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is a mistake in French grammar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t4:o3:1
# text = It is a mistake in French grammar
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a mistake |  | French grammar |  |  | tree rules |

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

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French talks about hair as many single hairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:16-the-body:t4:o4:1
# text = French talks about hair as many single hairs
1	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talks	talk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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