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title: State in full the French expression abbreviated as RSVP. — English words that came from French · tree and pragmatics
description: State in full the French expression abbreviated as RSVP. Exam question 3 of lesson 36 «English words that came from French» 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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# Exam question 3 · English words that came from French

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State in full the French expression abbreviated as RSVP.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** abbreviate · **To what, where:** French expression

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 36 «English words that came from French» of the French course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:e3:1
# text = State in full the French expression abbreviated as RSVP.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	abbreviated	abbreviate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	RSVP	rsvp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abbreviate** | participle |  | the French expression *not said here* |  |  |  | as RSVP | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Restez sur votre place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:e3:o1:1
# text = Restez sur votre place
1	Restez	Restez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sur	sur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	votre	votre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Répondez, s'il vous plaît

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:e3:o2:1
# text = Répondez, s'il vous plaît
1	Répondez	Répondez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	s'il	s'il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	vous	vous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rendez-vous, s'il vous plaît

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:e3:o3:1
# text = Rendez-vous, s'il vous plaît
1	Rendez	Rendez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	vous	vous	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	s'il	s'il	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
6	vous	vous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Revenez s'il vous plaît

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:e3:o4:1
# text = Revenez s'il vous plaît
1	Revenez	Revenez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	s'il	s'il	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	vous	vous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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