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title: Jayden's mum is mortified ("mortified" means terribly embarrassed) w… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: Jayden's mum is mortified ("mortified" means terribly embarrassed) when he shouts "Garçon !" Why? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 19 «At the café: ordering in French» 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 ri
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# Test 1 · ★★ · At the café: ordering in French

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Jayden's mum is mortified ("mortified" means terribly embarrassed) when he shouts "Garçon !" Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Jayden · **What happens:** mortify, mean, shout · **To what, where:** mum, Garçon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 19 «At the café: ordering in French» 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/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jayden's mum is mortified ("mortified" means terribly embarrassed) when he shouts "Garçon !"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t1:1
# text = Jayden's mum is mortified ("mortified" means terribly embarrassed) when he shouts "Garçon !"
1	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	mortified	mortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	mortified	mortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Garçon	Garçon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mortify** | present · passive |  | Jayden's mum |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mortify** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | embarrassed *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Jayden | Garçon |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garçon=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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t1:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Garçon is a bad swear word in French

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t1:o1:1
# text = Garçon is a bad swear word in French
1	Garçon	Garçon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	swear	swear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Garçon | a bad swear word |  | French |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Waiters in Paris only answer in English

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t1:o2:1
# text = Waiters in Paris only answer in English
1	Waiters	waiter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Waiters in Paris |  |  | English |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The waiter was a girl, so it should be garçonne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t1:o3:1
# text = The waiter was a girl, so it should be garçonne
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	waiter	waiter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	garçonne	garçonne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the waiter | a girl and garçonne |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | should | it | garçonne |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Calling a waiter garçon is old-fashioned and rude today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t1:o4:1
# text = Calling a waiter garçon is old-fashioned and rude today
1	Calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	waiter	waiter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	garçon	garçon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | gerund |  | a waiter garçon |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent garçon=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Calling |  |  |  | today | fashioned *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Calling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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