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title: A cartoon kid says "Je pas aime ne les maths." Your sister says, "Th… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon kid says "Je pas aime ne les maths." Your sister says, "That's well wonky." Fix it. Test 6 · ★★★ 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.
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Questions and simple sentences

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A cartoon kid says "Je pas aime ne les maths." Your sister says, "That's well wonky." Fix it.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon kid, sister, That, you · **What happens:** say, be, fix · **To what, where:** it · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon kid says "Je pas aime ne les maths."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t6:1
# text = A cartoon kid says "Je pas aime ne les maths."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	_
7	pas	pas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
8	aime	aime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
9	ne	ne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
11	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a cartoon kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Your sister says, "That's well wonky."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t6:2
# text = Your sister says, "That's well wonky."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	wonky	wonky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | well, wonky *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* Fix it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t6:3
# text = Fix it.
1	Fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Je aime pas ne les maths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t6:o1:1
# text = Je aime pas ne les maths
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	compound	_	_
2	aime	aime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
3	pas	pas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
4	ne	ne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
5	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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J'aime ne pas les maths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t6:o2:1
# text = J'aime ne pas les maths
1	J'aime	J'aime	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	ne	ne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	pas	pas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Je ne pas aime les maths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t6:o3:1
# text = Je ne pas aime les maths
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
2	ne	ne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	pas	pas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	aime	aime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Je n'aime pas les maths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t6:o4:1
# text = Je n'aime pas les maths
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	n'aime	n'aime	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	pas	pas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	maths	math	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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**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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