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title: Lily in Atlanta says, "Y'all, dirty and salty look the same!" Which… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily in Atlanta says, "Y'all, dirty and salty look the same!" Which pair is she looking at? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends

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Lily in Atlanta says, "Y'all, dirty and salty look the same!" Which pair is she looking at?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lily, Y'all, pair · **What happens:** say, look · **To what, where:** same · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lily in Atlanta says, "Y'all, dirty and salty look the same!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t8:1
# text = Lily in Atlanta says, "Y'all, dirty and salty look the same!"
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Y'all	Y'all	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Lily in Atlanta |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | present | Y'all | the same |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |

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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 pair is she looking at?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t8:2
# text = Which pair is she looking at?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · progressive | which pair |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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sel and selle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t8:o1:1
# text = sel and selle
1	sel	sel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	selle	selle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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sale and sel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t8:o2:1
# text = sale and sel
1	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sel	sel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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salé and salade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t8:o3:1
# text = salé and salade
1	salé	salé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	salade	salade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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sale and salé

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t8:o4:1
# text = sale and salé
1	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	salé	salé	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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