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title: Ollie from Sydney tells his penpal "Je suis mal à la tête." She goes… — Avoir: to have · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie from Sydney tells his penpal "Je suis mal à la tête." She goes, "Hein ?" (eh?) What should he have said? Test 10 of lesson 29 «Avoir: to have» 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 10 · Avoir: to have

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Ollie from Sydney tells his penpal "Je suis mal à la tête." She goes, "Hein ?" (eh?) What should he have said?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ollie, Je, Hein · **What happens:** tell, go, say · **To what, where:** penpal, Hein · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 29 «Avoir: to have» 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/29-avoir-to-have/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ollie from Sydney tells his penpal "Je suis mal à la tête."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t10:1
# text = Ollie from Sydney tells his penpal "Je suis mal à la tête."
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	penpal	penpal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Je	Je	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	_
10	mal	mal	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	conj	_	_
11	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
12	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	obj	_	_
13	tête	tête	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Ollie from Sydney | Ollie's penpal |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent penpal=Recipient |

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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:* She goes, "Hein ?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t10:2
# text = She goes, "Hein ?"
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Hein	Hein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Je | Hein |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* (eh?)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t10:3
# text = (eh?)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 4:* What should he have said?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t10:4
# text = What should he have said?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should · perfect | Hein |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

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

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J'ai mal à la tête

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t10:o1:1
# text = J'ai mal à la tête
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
2	mal	mal	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
3	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
5	tête	tête	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Je mal à la tête

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t10:o2:1
# text = Je mal à la tête
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mal	mal	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
3	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
5	tête	tête	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Je suis la tête mal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t10:o3:1
# text = Je suis la tête mal
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	tête	tête	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	mal	mal	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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J'ai tête mal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t10:o4:1
# text = J'ai tête mal
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	tête	tête	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	mal	mal	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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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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