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title: ★★★ Lucy's two sisters are both happy. Which sentence about them is… — Être: to be · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Lucy's two sisters are both happy. Which sentence about them is right? Test 8 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 8 · Être: to be

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★★★ Lucy's two sisters are both happy. Which sentence about them is right?

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

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Lucy's two sisters are both happy.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t8:1
# text = ★★★ Lucy's two sisters are both happy.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	both	both	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | ★ |  |  |  |  | both, happy *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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which sentence about them is right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t8:2
# text = Which sentence about them is right?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which sentence about sisters |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Elles sont contents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t8:o1:1
# text = Elles sont contents
1	Elles	Elles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	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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Elles sont contentes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t8:o2:1
# text = Elles sont contentes
1	Elles	Elles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	sont	sont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	contentes	contente	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ils sont contents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t8:o3:1
# text = Ils sont contents
1	Ils	Ils	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	sont	sont	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Elles est contentes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:28-etre-to-be:t8:o4:1
# text = Elles est contentes
1	Elles	Elles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	est	est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	contentes	contente	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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