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title: Zara texts her mum, "is she saluting me lol?" What does salut mean w… — Hello and goodbye: greetings · tree and pragmatics
description: Zara texts her mum, "is she saluting me lol?" What does salut mean when her penpal says it? Test 1 of lesson 4 «Hello and goodbye: greetings» 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 · Hello and goodbye: greetings

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Zara texts her mum, "is she saluting me lol?" What does salut mean when her penpal says it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Zara, penpal · **What happens:** text, salute, mean, say · **To what, where:** mum, me, it · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 4 «Hello and goodbye: greetings» 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/4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Zara texts her mum, "is she saluting me lol?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings:t1:1
# text = Zara texts her mum, "is she saluting me lol?"
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	texts	text	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saluting	salute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **text** | present | Zara | Zara's mum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **salute** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Zara | me |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |

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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 does salut mean when her penpal says it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings:t1:2
# text = What does salut mean when her penpal says it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	salut	salut	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	penpal	penpal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Zara's penpal | it |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Good evening, madam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings:t1:o1:1
# text = Good evening, madam
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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Hi, between friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings:t1:o2:1
# text = Hi, between friends
1	Hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Please be quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings:t1:o3:1
# text = Please be quiet
1	Please	please	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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I salute you, like a soldier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings:t1:o4:1
# text = I salute you, like a soldier
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	salute	salute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **salute** | present | I | you |  |  |  | like a soldier | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |

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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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