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title: ★★★ Which answer fits the question "Qu'est-ce que c'est ?" — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Which answer fits the question "Qu'est-ce que c'est ?" Test 9 · ★★★ 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 9 · ★★★ · Questions and simple sentences

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★★★ Which answer fits the question "Qu'est-ce que c'est ?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★ · **What happens:** fit · **To what, where:** question

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t9:1
# text = ★★★ Which answer fits the question "Qu'est-ce que c'est ?"
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Qu'est	Qu'est	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ce	ce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	que	que	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	c'est	c'est	PRON	PRP	_	13	goeswith	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | present | ★ ★ ★ | the question |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Il s'appelle Biscuit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t9:o1:1
# text = Il s'appelle Biscuit
1	Il	Il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	s'appelle	s'appelle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Biscuit	Biscuit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **s'appelle** | present | Il | Biscuit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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J'habite à Lyon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t9:o2:1
# text = J'habite à Lyon
1	J'habite	J'habite	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
2	à	à	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lyon	Lyon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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J'ai dix ans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t9:o3:1
# text = J'ai dix ans
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
2	dix	dix	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	ans	an	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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C'est un escargot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:30-questions-and-simple-sentences:t9:o4:1
# text = C'est un escargot
1	C'est	C'est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
2	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	escargot	escargot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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