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title: ★★★ Fill both gaps: "Nous ___ un chien et ils ___ deux chats." — Avoir: to have · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Fill both gaps: "Nous ___ un chien et ils ___ deux chats." Test 9 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · Avoir: to have

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★★★ Fill both gaps: "Nous \_\_\_ un chien et ils \_\_\_ deux chats."

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★ · **What happens:** fill · **To what, where:** gaps

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t9:1
# text = ★★★ Fill both gaps: "Nous ___ un chien et ils ___ deux chats."
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Nous	Nous	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
13	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
14	chien	chien	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	_
15	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
16	ils	ils	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
20	deux	deux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | infinitive | ★ ★ ★ | both gaps |  |  |  |  | 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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sommes, ont

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t9:o1:1
# text = sommes, ont
1	sommes	somme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ont	ont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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avons, ont

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t9:o2:1
# text = avons, ont
1	avons	avons	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ont	ont	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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avez, sont

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t9:o3:1
# text = avez, sont
1	avez	avez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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avons, sont

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:29-avoir-to-have:t9:o4:1
# text = avons, sont
1	avons	avon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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