--- title: ★★★ Which question would a French person NOT answer with parce que? — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Which question would a French person NOT answer with parce que? Test 4 · ★★★ 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/t4/) [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/) / [Questions and simple sentences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★★★ · Questions and simple sentences ★★★ Which question would a French person NOT answer with parce que? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★ · **What happens:** not answer This is test 4 · ★★★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t4:1 # text = ★★★ Which question would a French person NOT answer with parce que? 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 5 det _ _ 5 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 NOT not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 parce parce NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 que que NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | would | ★ ★ ★ which question | | | | | with parce que | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} Pourquoi tu aimes le foot ? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t4:o1:1 # text = Pourquoi tu aimes le foot ? 1 Pourquoi Pourquoi X FW Foreign=Yes 3 nsubj _ _ 2 tu tu X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 aimes aime VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **aime** | present | Pourquoi | le foot | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Pourquoi tu es triste ? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t4:o2:1 # text = Pourquoi tu es triste ? 1 Pourquoi Pourquoi X FW Foreign=Yes 4 nsubj _ _ 2 tu tu X FW Foreign=Yes 4 compound _ _ 3 es es X FW Foreign=Yes 4 compound _ _ 4 triste triste NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Combien de chats tu as ? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t4:o3:1 # text = Combien de chats tu as ? 1 Combien Combien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 chats chat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 tu tu X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ _ 5 as as X FW Foreign=Yes 3 conj _ _ 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Pourquoi tu ris ? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t4:o4:1 # text = Pourquoi tu ris ? 1 Pourquoi Pourquoi X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 tu tu X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 ris ris X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` 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. Elamur Cosmic License. - ← previous: [Questions and simple sentences, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/t3/) - next →: [Questions and simple sentences, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/t5/) - ↑ back to [Questions and simple sentences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/)