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title: A cartoon shows "Une souris vert". Your sister says it looks fine. F… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon shows "Une souris vert". Your sister says it looks fine. Fix it. Test 5 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 5 · Songs and rhymes

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A cartoon shows "Une souris vert". Your sister says it looks fine. Fix it.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon, sister, you · **What happens:** show, say, look, fix · **To what, where:** cartoon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows "Une souris vert".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t5:1
# text = A cartoon shows "Une souris vert".
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Une	Une	X	FW	_	7	flat:foreign	_	_
6	souris	souris	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
7	vert	vert	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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 it looks fine.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t5:2
# text = Your sister says it looks fine.
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	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | present | cartoon |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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*Sentence 3:* Fix it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t5:3
# 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* | cartoon |  |  |  |  | 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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Un souris verte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t5:o1:1
# text = Un souris verte
1	Un	Un	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	souris	souris	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	verte	verte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Un souris vert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t5:o2:1
# text = Un souris vert
1	Un	Un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	souris	souris	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	vert	vert	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Une souris verte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t5:o3:1
# text = Une souris verte
1	Une	Une	X	FW	_	0	root	_	_
2	souris	souris	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	verte	verte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Une souris vertes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t5:o4:1
# text = Une souris vertes
1	Une	Une	X	FW	_	0	root	_	_
2	souris	souris	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	vertes	vertes	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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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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