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title: ★★★ Beef, pork and mutton come from bœuf, porc and mouton. Veal come… — English words that came from French · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Beef, pork and mutton come from bœuf, porc and mouton. Veal comes from French veau. Which English animal word did the farmers keep for it? Test 12 · ★ 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 
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# Test 12 · ★ · English words that came from French

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★★★ Beef, pork and mutton come from bœuf, porc and mouton. Veal comes from French veau. Which English animal word did the farmers keep for it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ Beef, Veal, English animal word, farmers · **What happens:** come, do, keep · **To what, where:** bœuf, French veau

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Beef, pork and mutton come from bœuf, porc and mouton.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t12:1
# text = ★★★ Beef, pork and mutton come from bœuf, porc and mouton.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	mutton	mutton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bœuf	bœuf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	porc	porc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	mouton	mouton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | ★ ★ Beef and pork and mutton |  |  | bœuf and porc and mouton |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bœuf=Initial\_Location |

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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:* Veal comes from French veau.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t12:2
# text = Veal comes from French veau.
1	Veal	veal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	veau	veau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 3:* Which English animal word did the farmers keep for it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t12:3
# text = Which English animal word did the farmers keep for it?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
2	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | English animal word |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the farmers |  |  |  |  | for word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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calf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t12:o1:1
# text = calf
1	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t12:o2:1
# text = cow
1	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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lamb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t12:o3:1
# text = lamb
1	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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goat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t12:o4:1
# text = goat
1	goat	goat	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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