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title: ★★★ Max writes three sentences. Which one is correct? — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Max writes three sentences. Which one is correct? Test 12 · ★ 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.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French

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★★★ Max writes three sentences. Which one is correct?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, one · **What happens:** write, be · **To what, where:** three sentences

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Max writes three sentences.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t12:1
# text = ★★★ Max writes three sentences.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Max	Max	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | ★ | three sentences |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme |

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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:* Which one is correct?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t12:2
# text = Which one is correct?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 | **is** | present | which one |  |  |  |  | correct *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Monsieur, s'il te plaît !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t12:o1:1
# text = Monsieur, s'il te plaît !
1	Monsieur	monsieur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	s'il	s'il	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	te	te	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	!	!	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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Madame, tu veux un café ?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t12:o2:1
# text = Madame, tu veux un café ?
1	Madame	madame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	tu	tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
4	veux	veux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
5	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	café	café	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **café** |  | tu |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Maman, tu es fatiguée ?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t12:o3:1
# text = Maman, tu es fatiguée ?
1	Maman	Maman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tu	tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	es	es	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
5	fatiguée	fatiguée	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Les amis, tu voulez jouer ?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t12:o4:1
# text = Les amis, tu voulez jouer ?
1	Les	les	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	amis	ami	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	tu	tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	appos	_	_
5	voulez	voulez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	jouer	jouer	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
7	?	?	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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