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title: Josh asks, "What's 'du' about?" when he gets du pain. What does du m… — Food and drink · tree and pragmatics
description: Josh asks, "What's 'du' about?" when he gets du pain. What does du mean here? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 18 «Food and drink» 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 2 · ★ · Food and drink

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Josh asks, "What's 'du' about?" when he gets du pain. What does du mean here?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Josh · **What happens:** ask, be, get, mean · **To what, where:** du pain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 18 «Food and drink» 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/18-food-and-drink/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Josh asks, "What's 'du' about?" when he gets du pain.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t2:1
# text = Josh asks, "What's 'du' about?" when he gets du pain.
1	Josh	Josh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	du	du	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	du	du	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Josh |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | du *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | present | Josh | du pain |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus |

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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:* What does du mean here?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t2:2
# text = What does du mean here?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	du	du	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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of the day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t2:o1:1
# text = of the day
1	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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some

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t2:o2:1
# text = some
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t2:o3:1
# text = the
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:t2:o4:1
# text = two
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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