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description: ★★★ Your best friend AND your teacher are both sneezing. You speak to both together. What do you say? Test 11 · ★ 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 r
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# Test 11 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French

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★★★ Your best friend AND your teacher are both sneezing. You speak to both together. What do you say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★, You · **What happens:** sneeze, speak, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 5 «Tu or vous? Manners in 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/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Your best friend AND your teacher are both sneezing.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t11:1
# text = ★★★ Your best friend AND your teacher are both sneezing.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	both	both	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sneezing	sneeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneeze** | present · progressive | ★ |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* You speak to both together.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t11:2
# text = You speak to both together.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | You |  |  |  |  | to both; together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to both=Co-Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What do you say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t11:3
# 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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À vos souhaits !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t11:o1:1
# text = À vos souhaits !
1	À	À	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	vos	vos	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	souhaits	souhaits	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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À tes souhaits !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t11:o2:1
# text = À tes souhaits !
1	À	à	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tes	te	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	souhaits	souhait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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À ton souhait !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t11:o3:1
# text = À ton souhait !
1	À	à	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	ton	ton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	souhait	souhait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bon appétit !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t11:o4:1
# text = Bon appétit !
1	Bon	Bon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	appétit	appétit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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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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