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title: Jake goes "Sorry, bruv!" on a bus in Lille. ("Bruv" means mate.) Wha… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake goes "Sorry, bruv!" on a bus in Lille. ("Bruv" means mate.) What would a French kid say? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French

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Jake goes "Sorry, bruv!" on a bus in Lille. ("Bruv" means mate.) What would a French kid say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jake, Bruv, French kid · **What happens:** go, mean, say · **To what, where:** mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jake goes "Sorry, bruv!" on a bus in Lille.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t6:1
# text = Jake goes "Sorry, bruv!" on a bus in Lille.
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Lille	Lille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Jake |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:* ("Bruv" means mate.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t6:2
# text = ("Bruv" means mate.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Bruv | mate |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic |

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*Sentence 3:* What would a French kid say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t6:3
# text = What would a French kid say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | a French kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Bonjour !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t6:o1:1
# text = Bonjour !
1	Bonjour	Bonjour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	!	!	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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Merci !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t6:o2:1
# text = Merci !
1	Merci	Merci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Salut !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t6:o3:1
# text = Salut !
1	Salut	Salut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Pardon !

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t6:o4:1
# text = Pardon !
1	Pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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