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title: Your mate writes to a French pal, "Raisins are dry, innit?" when she… — False friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate writes to a French pal, "Raisins are dry, innit?" when she said she ate du raisin. What's the mix-up? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 35 «False friends» 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 1 · ★★ · False friends

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Your mate writes to a French pal, "Raisins are dry, innit?" when she said she ate du raisin. What's the mix-up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, Raisins, mix up · **What happens:** write, be, innit, say, eat · **To what, where:** French pal, raisin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 35 «False friends» 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/35-false-friends/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate writes to a French pal, "Raisins are dry, innit?" when she said she ate du raisin.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t1:1
# text = Your mate writes to a French pal, "Raisins are dry, innit?" when she said she ate du raisin.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pal	pal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Raisins	raisin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	du	du	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	raisin	raisin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Your mate |  | a French pal |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to pal=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Raisins |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **innit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **eat** | past | mate | du raisin |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raisin=Patient |

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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 the mix-up?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t1:2
# text = What's the mix-up?
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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She ate dried plums

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t1:o1:1
# text = She ate dried plums
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dried	dried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | She | dried plums |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, they're the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t1:o2:1
# text = Nothing, they're the same
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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She ate fresh grapes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t1:o3:1
# text = She ate fresh grapes
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | She | fresh grapes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She ate a sort of pudding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t1:o4:1
# text = She ate a sort of pudding
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | She | a sort of pudding |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient |
| 2 | **sort** |  |  | pudding |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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