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title: Poppy says "s'il te plaît" to the waiter. Her dad says, "Close, but… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics
description: Poppy says "s'il te plaît" to the waiter. Her dad says, "Close, but he's not your mate." Which please was right? Test 4 · ★ 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 ch
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# Test 4 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French

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Poppy says "s'il te plaît" to the waiter. Her dad says, "Close, but he's not your mate." Which please was right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Poppy, dad · **What happens:** say, not be, be · **To what, where:** waiter, mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Poppy says "s'il te plaît" to the waiter.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t4:1
# text = Poppy says "s'il te plaît" to the waiter.
1	Poppy	poppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	s'il	s'il	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	te	te	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	waiter	waiter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Poppy |  | the waiter |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to waiter=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Her dad says, "Close, but he's not your mate."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t4:2
# text = Her dad says, "Close, but he's not your mate."
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Poppy's dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | dad | your mate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* Which please was right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t4:3
# text = Which please was right?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	right	right	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** | past |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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s'il vous plaît

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t4:o1:1
# text = s'il vous plaît
1	s'il	s'il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	vous	vous	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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s'il vous plaisez

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t4:o2:1
# text = s'il vous plaisez
1	s'il	s'il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	vous	vous	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	plaisez	plaisez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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s'il tu plaît

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t4:o3:1
# text = s'il tu plaît
1	s'il	s'il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	tu	tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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s'il te plaît

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t4:o4:1
# text = s'il te plaît
1	s'il	s'il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	te	te	X	GW	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	goeswith	_	_
```

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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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