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description: ★ A cartoon shows a man saying "Je vais à le cinéma". What should the speech bubble say? Test 5 · ★ 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · The town and directions

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★ A cartoon shows a man saying "Je vais à le cinéma". What should the speech bubble say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, cartoon, man, Je, speech bubble · **What happens:** ★, show, say, cinéma · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★ A cartoon shows a man saying "Je vais à le cinéma".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t5:1
# text = ★ A cartoon shows a man saying "Je vais à le cinéma".
1	★	★	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
10	vais	vais	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
12	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	cinéma	cinéma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **★** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | a cartoon |  | a man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cinéma** *in a quote* |  | Je |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 the speech bubble say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t5:2
# text = What should the speech bubble say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bubble	bubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | the speech bubble |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Je vais aux cinéma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t5:o1:1
# text = Je vais aux cinéma
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	vais	vais	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	aux	aux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	cinéma	cinéma	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Je vais à la cinéma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t5:o2:1
# text = Je vais à la cinéma
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	vais	vais	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	à	à	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cinéma	cinéma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Je vais au cinéma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t5:o3:1
# text = Je vais au cinéma
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
2	vais	vais	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cinéma	cinéma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Je vais à les cinéma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:22-the-town-and-directions:t5:o4:1
# text = Je vais à les cinéma
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	vais	vais	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	cinéma	cinéma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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