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title: ★★★ How many of these are right? je suis, tu est, il est, nous somme… — Être: to be · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ How many of these are right? je suis, tu est, il est, nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont Test 10 of lesson 28 «Être: to be» 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 10 · Être: to be

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★★★ How many of these are right? je suis, tu est, il est, nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 of lesson 28 «Être: to be» 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/28-etre-to-be/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t10:1
# text = ★★★ How many of these are right? je suis, tu est, il est, nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
11	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	_
12	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	tu	tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
15	est	est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	il	il	X	FW	_	18	compound	_	_
18	est	est	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	nous	nous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	sommes	somme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	vous	vous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	êtes	ête	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	ils	il	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
27	sont	sont	X	FW	_	11	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t10:o1:1
# text = Three
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t10:o2:1
# text = Five
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t10:o3:1
# text = Six
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t10:o4:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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