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title: Ava from Cork says, "Sure des is just 'some' with a posh hat, I can… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics
description: Ava from Cork says, "Sure des is just 'some' with a posh hat, I can leave it out." Can she? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · Plurals: les, des and silent s

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Ava from Cork says, "Sure des is just 'some' with a posh hat, I can leave it out." Can she?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ava · **What happens:** say, leave out · **To what, where:** des · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ava from Cork says, "Sure des is just 'some' with a posh hat, I can leave it out."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t2:1
# text = Ava from Cork says, "Sure des is just 'some' with a posh hat, I can leave it out."
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Cork	Cork	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	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	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 | Ava from Cork |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave out** *in a quote* | can | Ava from Cork *= ava* | des |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:* Can she?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t2:2
# text = Can she?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, French keeps des where English drops "some"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t2:o1:1
# text = No, French keeps des where English drops "some"
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	des	de	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | French | des |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent de=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | present | English | some |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, French drops des like English

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t2:o2:1
# text = Yes, French drops des like English
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **de** | present | French drops |  |  |  |  | like English | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, but only in questions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t2:o3:1
# text = No, but only in questions
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, des is just for posh people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t2:o4:1
# text = Yes, des is just for posh people
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | des |  |  |  |  | for posh people | tree rules |

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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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