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title: A cartoon kid says "Je joue de la natation". Your sister says, "That… — Hobbies and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon kid says "Je joue de la natation". Your sister says, "That's well dodgy." Fix it. Test 3 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 3 · Hobbies and sport

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A cartoon kid says "Je joue de la natation". Your sister says, "That's well dodgy." Fix it.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon kid, Je, sister, That, you · **What happens:** say, natation, be, fix · **To what, where:** Je · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon kid says "Je joue de la natation".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t3:1
# text = A cartoon kid says "Je joue de la natation".
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	nsubj	_	_
7	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
9	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
10	natation	natation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a cartoon kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **natation** *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:* Your sister says, "That's well dodgy."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t3:2
# text = Your sister says, "That's well dodgy."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | dodgy, well *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* Fix it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t3:3
# text = Fix it.
1	Fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | imperative | you *not said here* | Je |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Je joue du natation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t3:o1:1
# text = Je joue du natation
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
2	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	du	du	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	natation	natation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Je natation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t3:o2:1
# text = Je natation
1	Je	Je	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	natation	natation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Je joue à la natation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t3:o3:1
# text = Je joue à la natation
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	natation	natation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Je fais de la natation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:23-hobbies-and-sport:t3:o4:1
# text = Je fais de la natation
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	fais	fais	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	natation	natation	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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