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title: ★★ Max from Manchester says "Je suis plein !" after lunch and his ho… — False friends · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★ Max from Manchester says "Je suis plein !" after lunch and his host laughs. What would sound natural? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · False friends

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★★ Max from Manchester says "Je suis plein !" after lunch and his host laughs. What would sound natural?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★, host · **What happens:** say, laugh, sound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★ Max from Manchester says "Je suis plein !" after lunch and his host laughs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t9:1
# text = ★★ Max from Manchester says "Je suis plein !" after lunch and his host laughs.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Max	Max	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
9	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	plein	plein	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **laugh** | present | ★'s host |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:* What would sound natural?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t9:2
# text = What would sound natural?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | would |  |  |  |  |  | natural *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Je suis vide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t9:o1:1
# text = Je suis vide
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
2	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	vide	vide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Je n'ai plus faim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t9:o2:1
# text = Je n'ai plus faim
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	n'ai	n'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	plus	plus	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	faim	faim	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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J'ai encore très faim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t9:o3:1
# text = J'ai encore très faim
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	encore	encore	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	très	très	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	faim	faim	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Je suis faim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:t9:o4:1
# text = Je suis faim
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	faim	faim	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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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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