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title: Ben's friend jokes, "Mate, you're leaving already?" when Ben says "M… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben's friend jokes, "Mate, you're leaving already?" when Ben says "Merci, au revoir !" as the drinks come. What should Ben say then? Test 10 · ★★ 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 
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# Test 10 · ★★ · At the café: ordering in French

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Ben's friend jokes, "Mate, you're leaving already?" when Ben says "Merci, au revoir !" as the drinks come. What should Ben say then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, you, Ben, drinks · **What happens:** joke, leave, say, come · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben's friend jokes, "Mate, you're leaving already?" when Ben says "Merci, au revoir !" as the drinks come.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t10:1
# text = Ben's friend jokes, "Mate, you're leaving already?" when Ben says "Merci, au revoir !" as the drinks come.
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	jokes	joke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	already	already	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Merci	Merci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	revoir	revoir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | Ben's friend |  |  |  |  | Mate *vocative* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ben |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | present | the drinks |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 should Ben say then?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t10:2
# text = What should Ben say then?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	then	then	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | Ben |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Bonjour, again and again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t10:o1:1
# text = Bonjour, again and again
1	Bonjour	Bonjour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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Just merci, and au revoir later when leaving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t10:o2:1
# text = Just merci, and au revoir later when leaving
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	merci	merci	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	revoir	revoir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
L'addition, before drinking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t10:o3:1
# text = L'addition, before drinking
1	L'addition	L'addition	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bonne nuit, and nothing else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t10:o4:1
# text = Bonne nuit, and nothing else
1	Bonne	bonne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	nuit	nuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	appos	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

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