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title: Ben goes, "No way, capitals don't get accents." What would a French… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben goes, "No way, capitals don't get accents." What would a French dictionary say? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 3 «Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends» 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 · ★ · Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends

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Ben goes, "No way, capitals don't get accents." What would a French dictionary say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ben, capitals, French dictionary · **What happens:** go, not get, say · **To what, where:** way, accents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 3 «Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends» 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/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben goes, "No way, capitals don't get accents."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t7:1
# text = Ben goes, "No way, capitals don't get accents."
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Ben | no way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present · do-support | capitals | accents |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer accent=Stimulus |

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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:* What would a French dictionary say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t7:2
# text = What would a French dictionary say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | a French dictionary |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Accents on capitals are against the law

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t7:o1:1
# text = Accents on capitals are against the law
1	Accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Accents on capitals |  |  |  |  | against the law | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Capitals keep their accents, as in ÉCOLE

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t7:o2:1
# text = Capitals keep their accents, as in ÉCOLE
1	Capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ÉCOLE	ÉCOLE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Capitals | Capitals's accents |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme |
| 2 | **accent** |  | Capitals *= capital* |  |  |  |  |  | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only names in capitals get accents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t7:o3:1
# text = Only names in capitals get accents
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | names in capitals | accents |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer accent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Capitals never have accents in French

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t7:o4:1
# text = Capitals never have accents in French
1	Capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present | Capitals | accents |  | French |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Patient |

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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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