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title: ★★★ Leo's friend says "J'ai dix ans, et toi ?" Leo is one year young… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Leo's friend says "J'ai dix ans, et toi ?" Leo is one year younger. What does he answer? Test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Questions and simple sentences» 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 1 · ★★★ · Questions and simple sentences

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★★★ Leo's friend says "J'ai dix ans, et toi ?" Leo is one year younger. What does he answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★, Leo · **What happens:** say, be, answer · **To what, where:** J'ai ans · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Questions and simple sentences» 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/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Leo's friend says "J'ai dix ans, et toi ?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t1:1
# text = ★★★ Leo's friend says "J'ai dix ans, et toi ?"
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	J'ai	J'ai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	dix	dix	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	ans	an	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	toi	toi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	conj	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ | J'ai ans |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent an=Topic |

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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:* Leo is one year younger.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t1:2
# text = Leo is one year younger.
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Leo |  |  |  | year | young *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* What does he answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t1:3
# text = What does he answer?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Leo |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Moi, j'ai onze ans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t1:o1:1
# text = Moi, j'ai onze ans
1	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	j'ai	j'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
4	onze	onze	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ans	an	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Je suis neuf ans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t1:o2:1
# text = Je suis neuf ans
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	neuf	neuf	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	ans	ans	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Moi, je suis neuf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t1:o3:1
# text = Moi, je suis neuf
1	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	neuf	neuf	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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J'ai neuf ans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t1:o4:1
# text = J'ai neuf ans
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
2	neuf	neuf	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	ans	an	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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