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title: Lily from Cardiff asks, "Un, deux, trois, nous irons au bois - is it… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily from Cardiff asks, "Un, deux, trois, nous irons au bois - is it just counting? Tidy." What's more to it? Test 8 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 right.
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# Test 8 · Songs and rhymes

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Lily from Cardiff asks, "Un, deux, trois, nous irons au bois - is it just counting? Tidy." What's more to it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lily, bois · **What happens:** ask, count, be · **To what, where:** Un, Tidy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lily from Cardiff asks, "Un, deux, trois, nous irons au bois - is it just counting?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t8:1
# text = Lily from Cardiff asks, "Un, deux, trois, nous irons au bois - is it just counting?
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	deux	deux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	trois	trois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	nous	nous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	irons	iron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
15	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bois	bois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Lily from Cardiff | Un and deux and trois |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent un=Recipient |
| 2 | **count** *in a quote* | present · progressive | bois |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:* Tidy."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t8:2
# text = Tidy."
1	Tidy	tidy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 3:* What's more to it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t8:3
# text = What's more to it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  | Tidy |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It's a song about a wolf in the woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t8:o1:1
# text = It's a song about a wolf in the woods
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a song |  | the woods |  | about a wolf | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The numbers rhyme with a story

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t8:o2:1
# text = The numbers rhyme with a story
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rhyme** | present | the numbers |  |  |  |  | with a story | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with story=Co-Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It's just numbers with no other words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t8:o3:1
# text = It's just numbers with no other words
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | numbers |  |  |  | with no other words | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It counts sheep at bedtime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t8:o4:1
# text = It counts sheep at bedtime
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | It | sheep |  | bedtime |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |

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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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