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title: ★ Tom says, "J'aime le foot et je n'aime pas le rugby." His teacher… — Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★ Tom says, "J'aime le foot et je n'aime pas le rugby." His teacher says one little word would fit better. Which? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 24 «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 7 · ★ · Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas

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★ Tom says, "J'aime le foot et je n'aime pas le rugby." His teacher says one little word would fit better. Which?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, teacher, one little word · **What happens:** say, fit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 24 «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» 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/24-likes-and-dislikes/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★ Tom says, "J'aime le foot et je n'aime pas le rugby."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:t7:1
# text = ★ Tom says, "J'aime le foot et je n'aime pas le rugby."
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
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	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	J'aime	J'aime	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	conj	_	_
11	n'aime	n'aime	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	pas	pas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	_
13	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:* His teacher says one little word would fit better.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:t7:2
# text = His teacher says one little word would fit better.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★'s teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fit** | would | one little word |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* Which?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:t7:3
# text = Which?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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aussi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:t7:o1:1
# text = aussi
1	aussi	aussi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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parce que

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:t7:o2:1
# text = parce que
1	parce	parce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	que	que	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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mais

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:t7:o3:1
# text = mais
1	mais	mais	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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et

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:24-likes-and-dislikes:t7:o4:1
# text = et
1	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
```

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

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