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title: Gemma from Cardiff says, "Tidy, so I play the flute: je joue à la fl… — Hobbies and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Gemma from Cardiff says, "Tidy, so I play the flute: je joue à la flûte." (tidy = nice, great) What's right? Test 2 of lesson 23 «Hobbies and sport» 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 2 · Hobbies and sport

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Gemma from Cardiff says, "Tidy, so I play the flute: je joue à la flûte." (tidy = nice, great) What's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gemma, je · **What happens:** say, play, flûte, be · **To what, where:** flute · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 of lesson 23 «Hobbies and sport» 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/23-hobbies-and-sport/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gemma from Cardiff says, "Tidy, so I play the flute: je joue à la flûte."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t2:1
# text = Gemma from Cardiff says, "Tidy, so I play the flute: je joue à la flûte."
1	Gemma	Gemma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	says	say	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	Tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	nsubj	_	_
16	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
17	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
18	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
19	flûte	flûte	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Gemma from Cardiff |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **play** *in a quote* | present | Gemma from Cardiff *= gemma* | the flute |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme |
| 3 | **flûte** *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:* (tidy = nice, great) What's right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t2:2
# text = (tidy = nice, great) What's right?
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	4	punct	_	_
4	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
8	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Je fais à la flûte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t2:o1:1
# text = Je fais à la flûte
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fais	fai	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	à	à	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flûte	flûte	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fai** | present | Je |  |  |  |  | à la flûte | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Je joue à la flûte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t2:o2:1
# text = Je joue à la flûte
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	flûte	flûte	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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 joue de la flûte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t2:o3:1
# text = Je joue de la flûte
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	flûte	flûte	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 joue au flûte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t2:o4:1
# text = Je joue au flûte
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
2	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	au	au	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	flûte	flûte	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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