--- title: Cooper is lowkey offended when his teacher says "À vos souhaits !" (… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics description: Cooper is lowkey offended when his teacher says "À vos souhaits !" ("Lowkey" means a bit.) What did she mean? Test 9 · ★ 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 choic --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Tu or vous? Manners in French Cooper is lowkey offended when his teacher says "À vos souhaits !" ("Lowkey" means a bit.) What did she mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cooper, teacher, Lowkey · **What happens:** be, say, mean · **To what, where:** À vos, bit · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Cooper is lowkey offended when his teacher says "À vos souhaits !" ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t9:1 # text = Cooper is lowkey offended when his teacher says "À vos souhaits !" 1 Cooper cooper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 lowkey lowkey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 offended offended ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 À À X FW Foreign=Yes 11 compound _ _ 11 vos vos X FW Foreign=Yes 8 obj _ _ 12 souhaits souhaits X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat:foreign _ _ 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Cooper | | | | | offended *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | his teacher | À vos | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vos=Topic | 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. *Sentence 2:* ("Lowkey" means a bit.) ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t9:2 # text = ("Lowkey" means a bit.) 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Lowkey Lowkey 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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Lowkey | a bit | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic | *Sentence 3:* What did she mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t9:3 # text = What did she mean? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | past · do-support | Lowkey | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} You are wet ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t9:o1:1 # text = You are wet 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | You | | | | | wet *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Be quiet ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t9:o2:1 # text = Be quiet 1 Be be VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | quiet *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Your voice is funny ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t9:o3:1 # text = Your voice is funny 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Your voice | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Bless you ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french:t9:o4:1 # text = Bless you 1 Bless bless VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | imperative | you *not said here* | you | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | **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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