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title: Your mate goes, "French and English have nothing in common, bruv." W… — English words that came from French · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate goes, "French and English have nothing in common, bruv." What do you say? Test 1 · ★ 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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# Test 1 · ★ · English words that came from French

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Your mate goes, "French and English have nothing in common, bruv." What do you say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, you · **What happens:** go, have, say · **To what, where:** French, nothing, common bruv · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 36 «English words that came from French» 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/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate goes, "French and English have nothing in common, bruv."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t1:1
# text = Your mate goes, "French and English have nothing in common, bruv."
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	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Your mate | French |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Your mate *not said here* | nothing |  | common bruv |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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 do you say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t1:2
# text = What do you say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Thousands of English words came from French

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t1:o1:1
# text = Thousands of English words came from French
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Thousands of English words |  |  | French |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from french=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Only the word "bonjour" is shared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t1:o2:1
# text = Only the word "bonjour" is shared
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bonjour	bonjour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present · passive |  | the word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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English came from French completely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t1:o3:1
# text = English came from French completely
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | English |  |  | French |  | completely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from french=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He's right, they share no words at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t1:o4:1
# text = He's right, they share no words at all
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **share** | present | they | no words |  | all |  |  | tree rules |

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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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