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title: Jack from Glasgow says, "Le bûche is brilliant, ken." Fix the little… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day Fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack from Glasgow says, "Le bûche is brilliant, ken." Fix the little word. Test 3 of lesson 32 «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» 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 3 · Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Jack from Glasgow says, "Le bûche is brilliant, ken." Fix the little word.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jack, Le bûche, you · **What happens:** say, be, ken, fix · **To what, where:** little word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 of lesson 32 «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» 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/32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jack from Glasgow says, "Le bûche is brilliant, ken."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:t3:1
# text = Jack from Glasgow says, "Le bûche is brilliant, ken."
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bûche	bûche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ken	ken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jack from Glasgow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Le bûche |  |  |  |  | brilliant *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ken** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* Fix the little word.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:t3:2
# text = Fix the little word.
1	Fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	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* | the little word |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent word=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
le bûche is right, cakes are masculine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:t3:o1:1
# text = le bûche is right, cakes are masculine
1	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bûche	bûche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | le bûche |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | cakes |  |  |  |  | masculine *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
la bûche, because bûche is feminine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:t3:o2:1
# text = la bûche, because bûche is feminine
1	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	bûche	bûche	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	bûche	bûche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | bûche |  |  |  |  | feminine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
les bûche, because there are many slices

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:t3:o3:1
# text = les bûche, because there are many slices
1	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	nsubj	_	_
2	bûche	bûche	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	slices	slice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | les | many slices |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
l'bûche, because it starts with b

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:32-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style:t3:o4:1
# text = l'bûche, because it starts with b
1	l'bûche	l'bûche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | l'bûche | l'bûche *not said here* |  |  |  | with b | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent l'bûche=Eventuality with b=Subeventuality |

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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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