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title: ★ Jack from Glasgow answers "On dit quoi ?" with a whole paragraph a… — France and the French-speaking world · tree and pragmatics
description: ★ Jack from Glasgow answers "On dit quoi ?" with a whole paragraph about his day. What's a better reply? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 34 «France and the French-speaking world» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 6 · ★ · France and the French-speaking world

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★ Jack from Glasgow answers "On dit quoi ?" with a whole paragraph about his day. What's a better reply?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, better reply · **What happens:** answer, be · **To what, where:** dit quoi

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 34 «France and the French-speaking world» 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/34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★ Jack from Glasgow answers "On dit quoi ?" with a whole paragraph about his day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t6:1
# text = ★ Jack from Glasgow answers "On dit quoi ?" with a whole paragraph about his day.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	On	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	dit	dit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	quoi	quoi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | ★ from Glasgow | dit quoi |  |  |  | with a whole paragraph about ★'s day | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent quoi=Eventuality |

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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:* What's a better reply?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t6:2
# text = What's a better reply?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Il est quatre heures

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t6:o1:1
# text = Il est quatre heures
1	Il	Il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	est	est	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	heures	heure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Je m'appelle Jack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t6:o2:1
# text = Je m'appelle Jack
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	nsubj	_	_
2	m'appelle	m'appelle	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Au revoir, à demain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t6:o3:1
# text = Au revoir, à demain
1	Au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	revoir	revoir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	à	à	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	demain	demain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ça va un peu, et toi ?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t6:o4:1
# text = Ça va un peu, et toi ?
1	Ça	Ça	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
2	va	va	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
3	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	peu	peu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
7	toi	toi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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