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title: ★★★ Verses of "Alouette" add la tête, le bec, les yeux and le cou. H… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Verses of "Alouette" add la tête, le bec, les yeux and le cou. How many of these four are masculine singular? Test 12 of lesson 31 «Songs and rhymes» 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 12 · Songs and rhymes

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★★★ Verses of "Alouette" add la tête, le bec, les yeux and le cou. How many of these four are masculine singular?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ Verses, many · **What happens:** add, verse, be · **To what, where:** la tête, Alouette

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This is test 12 of lesson 31 «Songs and rhymes» 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/31-songs-and-rhymes/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Verses of "Alouette" add la tête, le bec, les yeux and le cou.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t12:1
# text = ★★★ Verses of "Alouette" add la tête, le bec, les yeux and le cou.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Alouette	Alouette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
11	tête	tête	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bec	bec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	yeux	yeux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cou	cou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | ★ ★ Verses of Alouette | la tête and le bec and les yeux and le cou |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tête=Patient |
| 2 | **verse** |  |  | Alouette |  |  |  |  | nom verse «communication transitive»: of=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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many of these four are masculine singular?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t12:2
# text = How many of these four are masculine singular?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many of this four |  |  |  |  | singular *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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One: only le bec

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t12:o1:1
# text = One: only le bec
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bec	bec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Two: le bec and le cou

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t12:o2:1
# text = Two: le bec and le cou
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bec	bec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cou	cou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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None: all four are feminine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t12:o3:1
# text = None: all four are feminine
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | None |  |  |  |  | feminine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three: le bec, le cou and les yeux

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t12:o4:1
# text = Three: le bec, le cou and les yeux
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bec	bec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cou	cou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
10	yeux	yeux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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