--- title: ★ Your cousin reads "blancs moutons" and goes, "Blank sheep? Like, e… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics description: ★ Your cousin reads "blancs moutons" and goes, "Blank sheep? Like, empty?" What does it mean? Test 9 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [Songs and rhymes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/) / t9 # Test 9 · Songs and rhymes ★ Your cousin reads "blancs moutons" and goes, "Blank sheep? Like, empty?" What does it mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, cousin · **What happens:** ★, read, go, mean · **To what, where:** blancs moutons, Blank sheep This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★ Your cousin reads "blancs moutons" and goes, "Blank sheep? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t9:1 # text = ★ Your cousin reads "blancs moutons" and goes, "Blank sheep? 1 ★ ★ VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 blancs blancs NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 moutons mouton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Blank blank ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **★** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **read** | present | Your cousin | blancs moutons | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouton=Topic | | 3 | **go** | present | Your cousin *not said here* | Blank sheep | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Like, empty?" ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t9:2 # text = Like, empty?" 1 Like like INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 3:* What does it mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t9:3 # text = What does it mean? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | cousin | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} White sheep ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t9:o1:1 # text = White sheep 1 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Small sheep ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t9:o2:1 # text = Small sheep 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Black sheep ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t9:o3:1 # text = Black sheep 1 Black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Empty sheep ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:31-songs-and-rhymes:t9:o4:1 # text = Empty sheep 1 Empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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