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title: A cartoon pirate shouts "J'ai deux œils !" What should he shout? — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon pirate shouts "J'ai deux œils !" What should he shout? Test 6 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Plurals: les, des and silent s

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A cartoon pirate shouts "J'ai deux œils !" What should he shout?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon pirate, pirate · **What happens:** shout · **To what, where:** J'ai deux œils

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon pirate shouts "J'ai deux œils !"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t6:1
# text = A cartoon pirate shouts "J'ai deux œils !"
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	_
7	deux	deux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	œils	œil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | a cartoon pirate | J'ai deux œils |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent œil=Topic |

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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:* What should he shout?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t6:2
# text = What should he shout?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | should | pirate |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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J'ai deux œils !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t6:o1:1
# text = J'ai deux œils !
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
2	deux	deux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	œils	œil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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J'ai deux yeuxs !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t6:o2:1
# text = J'ai deux yeuxs !
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
2	deux	deux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	yeuxs	yeux	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
J'ai deux œilx !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t6:o3:1
# text = J'ai deux œilx !
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
2	deux	deux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	œilx	œilx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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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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J'ai deux yeux !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s:t6:o4:1
# text = J'ai deux yeux !
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	deux	deux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	yeux	yeux	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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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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