--- title: Identify the expression appropriate when a request is addressed to a… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the expression appropriate when a request is addressed to a waiter. Exam question 2 of lesson 5 «Tu or vous? Manners in 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [Tu or vous? Manners in French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Tu or vous? Manners in French Identify the expression appropriate when a request is addressed to a waiter. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, address · **To what, where:** expression, request This is exam question 2 of lesson 5 «Tu or vous? Manners in 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/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:e2:1 # text = Identify the expression appropriate when a request is addressed to a waiter. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 appropriate appropriate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 addressed address VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 advcl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 waiter waiter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the expression | | | | appropriate *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme | | 2 | **address** | present · passive | | a request | | | | to a waiter | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | 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} Donne-moi... ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:e2:o1:1 # text = Donne-moi... 1 Donne donne NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 moi MoI PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ... ... PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Je veux..., s'il te plaît ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:e2:o2:1 # text = Je veux..., s'il te plaît 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 veux veux X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ... ... PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 s'il s'il NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 te te ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 plaît plaît NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Salut, je veux... ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:e2:o3:1 # text = Salut, je veux... 1 Salut Salut PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 je je X FW Foreign=Yes 4 compound _ _ 4 veux veux NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ... ... PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Je voudrais..., s'il vous plaît ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:e2:o4:1 # text = Je voudrais..., s'il vous plaît 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 voudrais voudrais X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ... ... PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ 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 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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