--- title: Your cousin texts "les chevals sont trop mignons lol" (mignons = cut… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics description: Your cousin texts "les chevals sont trop mignons lol" (mignons = cute). What's wrong? Test 11 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [Plurals: les, des and silent s](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Plurals: les, des and silent s Your cousin texts "les chevals sont trop mignons lol" (mignons = cute). What's wrong? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cousin, sont · **What happens:** text, mignon, be · **To what, where:** les chevals, mignons This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your cousin texts "les chevals sont trop mignons lol" (mignons = cute). ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t11:1 # text = Your cousin texts "les chevals sont trop mignons lol" (mignons = cute). 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 texts text VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 les le NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 flat:foreign _ _ 6 chevals cheval NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 sont sont X FW Foreign=Yes 9 nsubj _ _ 8 trop trop NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 mignons mignon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 lol lol INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 mignons mignon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 14 = = SYM SYM _ 15 punct _ _ 15 cute cute ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **text** | present | Your cousin | les chevals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mignon** *in a quote* | | sont | mignons | | | | | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* What's wrong? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t11:2 # text = What's wrong? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} It should be chevaux: -al becomes -aux ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t11:o1:1 # text = It should be chevaux: -al becomes -aux 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 chevaux chevaux NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 al al NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 aux aux NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | should | It | chevaux | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **become** | present | al | aux | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient chevaux=Result | ### Option 2 {#o2} It should be cheveaux with an e ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t11:o2:1 # text = It should be cheveaux with an e 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 cheveaux cheveaux NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | should | It | cheveaux | | | | with a e | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} It should be les cheval, no s ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t11:o3:1 # text = It should be les cheval, no s 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 4 les le NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 compound _ _ 5 cheval cheval NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 8 det _ _ 8 s s NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | should | It | les cheval and no s | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nothing, chevals is right ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t11:o4:1 # text = Nothing, chevals is right 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 chevals cheval NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Nothing | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | **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. 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