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title: Your mate writes "Sest super" about a film. Fix it. — Être: to be · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate writes "Sest super" about a film. Fix it. Test 7 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 right.
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# Test 7 · Être: to be

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Your mate writes "Sest super" about a film. Fix it.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, you · **What happens:** write, fix · **To what, where:** mate

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate writes "Sest super" about a film.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t7:1
# text = Your mate writes "Sest super" about a film.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Sest	Sest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	super	super	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  | about a film; super *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about film=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:* Fix it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t7:2
# text = Fix it.
1	Fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | imperative | you *not said here* | mate |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

## The options {#options}

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

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C'est super

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t7:o1:1
# text = C'est super
1	C'est	C'est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
2	super	super	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cest super

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t7:o2:1
# text = Cest super
1	Cest	c	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
2	super	super	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ces super

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t7:o3:1
# text = Ces super
1	Ces	ce	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	super	super	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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S'est super

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t7:o4:1
# text = S'est super
1	S'est	S'est	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	super	super	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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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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