--- title: Alfie asks, "Them accents is well peng but what are they called?" ("… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics description: Alfie asks, "Them accents is well peng but what are they called?" ("Peng" means great.) Which name matches ç? Test 9 · ★ 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 cho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends Alfie asks, "Them accents is well peng but what are they called?" ("Peng" means great.) Which name matches ç? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Alfie, accents, Peng, name · **What happens:** ask, peng, call, mean, match · **To what, where:** accents, ç · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Alfie asks, "Them accents is well peng but what are they called?" ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t9:1 # text = Alfie asks, "Them accents is well peng but what are they called?" 1 Alfie Alfie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Them them DET DT PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 9 peng peng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Alfie | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **peng** *in a quote* | present · progressive | them accents | | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **call** *in a quote* | present · passive | | accents *= accent* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result | 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. *Sentence 2:* ("Peng" means great.) ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t9:2 # text = ("Peng" means great.) 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Peng Peng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Peng | | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | *Sentence 3:* Which name matches ç? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t9:3 # text = Which name matches ç? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 matches match VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 ç ç X FW Foreign=Yes 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **match** | present | which name | ç | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ç=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} tréma ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t9:o1:1 # text = tréma 1 tréma tréma X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} accent aigu ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t9:o2:1 # text = accent aigu 1 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 aigu aigu NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} cédille ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t9:o3:1 # text = cédille 1 cédille cédille NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} accent circonflexe ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends:t9:o4:1 # text = accent circonflexe 1 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 circonflexe circonflexe NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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