--- title: Harry asks, "Plate? Like a dinner plate?" What does eau plate mean? — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics description: Harry asks, "Plate? Like a dinner plate?" What does eau plate mean? Test 6 · ★★ 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/t6/) [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/) / [At the café: ordering in French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★★ · At the café: ordering in French Harry asks, "Plate? Like a dinner plate?" What does eau plate mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Harry, eau plate · **What happens:** ask, mean · **To what, where:** Plate This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Harry asks, "Plate? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t6:1 # text = Harry asks, "Plate? 1 Harry Harry 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 , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Harry | Plate | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:* Like a dinner plate?" ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t6:2 # text = Like a dinner plate?" 1 Like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 3:* What does eau plate mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t6:3 # text = What does eau plate mean? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 eau eau NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | eau plate | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} hot water ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t6:o1:1 # text = hot water 1 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} water on a plate ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t6:o2:1 # text = water on a plate 1 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} sparkling water ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t6:o3:1 # text = sparkling water 1 sparkling sparkle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 amod _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sparkle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} still water ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french:t6:o4:1 # text = still water 1 still still ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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