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title: ★★★ A French bus driver, a taxi driver and a posh limousine driver -… — English words that came from French · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ A French bus driver, a taxi driver and a posh limousine driver - which of them can be called chauffeur in French? Test 8 · ★ 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 optio
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# Test 8 · ★ · English words that came from French

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★★★ A French bus driver, a taxi driver and a posh limousine driver - which of them can be called chauffeur in French?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** taxi driver, French · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t8:1
# text = ★★★ A French bus driver, a taxi driver and a posh limousine driver - which of them can be called chauffeur in French?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	taxi	taxi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	limousine	limousine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
24	chauffeur	chauffeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | can · passive |  | a taxi driver and a posh limousine driver |  | French |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: which=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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None of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t8:o1:1
# text = None of them
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Only the limousine driver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t8:o2:1
# text = Only the limousine driver
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	limousine	limousine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	driver	driver	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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Only the taxi driver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t8:o3:1
# text = Only the taxi driver
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	taxi	taxi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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All three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:36-english-words-that-came-from-french:t8:o4:1
# text = All three
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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