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title: Ethan's mate in Cardiff laughs, "Tidy, but count, butt!" ("Tidy" mea… — Numbers 0 to 20 · tree and pragmatics
description: Ethan's mate in Cardiff laughs, "Tidy, but count, butt!" ("Tidy" means good; "butt" means mate.) He jumped 11 times for "sautez dix fois". How many too many? Test 10 of lesson 6 «Numbers 0 to 20» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 10 · Numbers 0 to 20

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Ethan's mate in Cardiff laughs, "Tidy, but count, butt!" ("Tidy" means good; "butt" means mate.) He jumped 11 times for "sautez dix fois". How many too many?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, Tidy, butt · **What happens:** laugh, count, mean, jump · **To what, where:** butt, mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 6 «Numbers 0 to 20» 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/6-numbers-0-to-20/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ethan's mate in Cardiff laughs, "Tidy, but count, butt!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:6-numbers-0-to-20:t10:1
# text = Ethan's mate in Cardiff laughs, "Tidy, but count, butt!"
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	butt	butt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | present | Ethan's mate in Cardiff |  |  |  |  | tidy *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **count** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | butt |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:* ("Tidy" means good; "butt" means mate.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:6-numbers-0-to-20:t10:2
# text = ("Tidy" means good; "butt" means mate.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tidy	Tidy	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	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	butt	butt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Tidy |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | butt | mate |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic |

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*Sentence 3:* He jumped 11 times for "sautez dix fois".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:6-numbers-0-to-20:t10:3
# text = He jumped 11 times for "sautez dix fois".
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	sautez	sautez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fois	fois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | butt |  |  |  | time | for sautez dix fois | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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*Sentence 4:* How many too many?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:6-numbers-0-to-20:t10:4
# text = How many too many?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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0

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:6-numbers-0-to-20:t10:o1:1
# text = 0
1	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:6-numbers-0-to-20:t10:o2:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:6-numbers-0-to-20:t10:o3:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:6-numbers-0-to-20:t10:o4:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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