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title: ★★★ Every word must agree. Which sentence is all right? — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Every word must agree. Which sentence is all right? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 26 «Plurals: les, des and silent s» 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Plurals: les, des and silent s

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★★★ Every word must agree. Which sentence is all right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** word, sentence · **What happens:** agree, be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 26 «Plurals: les, des and silent s» 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/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Every word must agree.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t10:1
# text = ★★★ Every word must agree.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | must | every word |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:* Which sentence is all right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t10:2
# text = Which sentence is all right?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Les chats noirs sont dans les jardins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t10:o1:1
# text = Les chats noirs sont dans les jardins
1	Les	les	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	noirs	noir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	sont	sont	X	FW	_	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	dans	dans	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	conj	_	_
6	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	jardins	jardins	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Le chats noirs sont dans les jardin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t10:o2:1
# text = Le chats noirs sont dans les jardin
1	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	noirs	noir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
4	sont	sont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
5	dans	dans	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
6	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
7	jardin	jardin	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Les chats noirs est dans les jardins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t10:o3:1
# text = Les chats noirs est dans les jardins
1	Les	les	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	noirs	noirs	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	est	est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
5	dans	dans	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
6	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
7	jardins	jardins	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Les chats noir sont dans les jardins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t10:o4:1
# text = Les chats noir sont dans les jardins
1	Les	les	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	noir	noir	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	sont	sont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
5	dans	dans	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
6	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
7	jardins	jardins	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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