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title: Mia from Atlanta goes, "Y'all, I'm fixin' to sleep at the hôtel de v… — The town and directions · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia from Atlanta goes, "Y'all, I'm fixin' to sleep at the hôtel de ville tonight." (fixin' to = about to) What is the problem? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 22 «The town and directions» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 4 · ★ · The town and directions

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Mia from Atlanta goes, "Y'all, I'm fixin' to sleep at the hôtel de ville tonight." (fixin' to = about to) What is the problem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mia, I · **What happens:** go, fixin, sleep, be · **To what, where:** hôtel, problem

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 22 «The town and directions» 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/22-the-town-and-directions/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mia from Atlanta goes, "Y'all, I'm fixin' to sleep at the hôtel de ville tonight."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t4:1
# text = Mia from Atlanta goes, "Y'all, I'm fixin' to sleep at the hôtel de ville tonight."
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	goes	go	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	Y'all	Y'all	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fixin	fixin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hôtel	hôtel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	conj	_	_
19	ville	ville	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat:foreign	_	_
20	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Mia from Atlanta |  |  |  |  | Y'all *vocative* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fixin** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the hôtel |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* (fixin' to = about to) What is the problem?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t4:2
# text = (fixin' to = about to) What is the problem?
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	fixin	fixin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	6	punct	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the problem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It's the town hall, not a hotel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t4:o1:1
# text = It's the town hall, not a hotel
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hotel	hotel	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** | present | It | the town hall and a hotel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It only takes French guests

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t4:o2:1
# text = It only takes French guests
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | It |  | French guests |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument guest=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, it's the cheapest hotel in town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t4:o3:1
# text = Nothing, it's the cheapest hotel in town
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cheapest	cheap	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | the cheapest hotel |  | town |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It's a railway station, not a hotel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t4:o4:1
# text = It's a railway station, not a hotel
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hotel	hotel	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** | present | It | a railway station and a hotel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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