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title: Your cousin in London goes, "Je ai a chien, bare short innit." Fix t… — Avoir: to have · tree and pragmatics
description: Your cousin in London goes, "Je ai a chien, bare short innit." Fix the whole thing. Test 2 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 2 · Avoir: to have

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Your cousin in London goes, "Je ai a chien, bare short innit." Fix the whole thing.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cousin, you · **What happens:** go, fix · **To what, where:** whole thing

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your cousin in London goes, "Je ai a chien, bare short innit."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t2:1
# text = Your cousin in London goes, "Je ai a chien, bare short innit."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Je	Je	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ai	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Vrnc|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chien	chien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

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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 the whole thing.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t2:2
# text = Fix the whole thing.
1	Fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	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* | the whole thing |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |

## The options {#options}

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

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J'ai un chien

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t2:o1:1
# text = J'ai un chien
1	J'ai	J'ai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chien	chien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Je ai un chien

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t2:o2:1
# text = Je ai un chien
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
2	ai	ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	chien	chien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Je a un chien

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t2:o3:1
# text = Je a un chien
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	chien	chien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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J'ai a chien

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t2:o4:1
# text = J'ai a chien
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chien	chien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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