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title: ★★★ A Belgian kid says septante-sept and a Paris kid says soixante-d… — France and the French-speaking world · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ A Belgian kid says septante-sept and a Paris kid says soixante-dix-sept. Do they mean the same number, and what is it? Test 9 · ★ 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
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# Test 9 · ★ · France and the French-speaking world

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★★★ A Belgian kid says septante-sept and a Paris kid says soixante-dix-sept. Do they mean the same number, and what is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, Paris kid, they · **What happens:** say, mean, be · **To what, where:** septante sept, same number, number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ A Belgian kid says septante-sept and a Paris kid says soixante-dix-sept.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t9:1
# text = ★★★ A Belgian kid says septante-sept and a Paris kid says soixante-dix-sept.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Belgian	Belgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	septante	septante	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	sept	sept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	soixante	soixante	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	sept	sept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ ★ a Belgian kid | septante sept |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sept=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Paris kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:* Do they mean the same number, and what is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t9:2
# text = Do they mean the same number, and what is it?
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | they | the same number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, 67 and 77

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t9:o1:1
# text = No, 67 and 77
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	67	67	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	77	77	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, 77 and 97

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t9:o2:1
# text = No, 77 and 97
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	77	77	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	97	97	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, 87

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t9:o3:1
# text = Yes, 87
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	87	87	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Yes, 77

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world:t9:o4:1
# text = Yes, 77
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	77	77	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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