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title: A cartoon English boy in Paris says "Je suis dix!" to show he is ten… — Numbers 21 to 69 · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon English boy in Paris says "Je suis dix!" to show he is ten. What should he say? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 7 «Numbers 21 to 69» 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 4 · ★ · Numbers 21 to 69

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A cartoon English boy in Paris says "Je suis dix!" to show he is ten. What should he say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon English boy, boy · **What happens:** say, show, be · **To what, where:** Je, ten · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 7 «Numbers 21 to 69» 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/7-numbers-21-to-69/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon English boy in Paris says "Je suis dix!" to show he is ten.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t4:1
# text = A cartoon English boy in Paris says "Je suis dix!" to show he is ten.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	obj	_	_
10	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
11	dix	dix	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a cartoon English boy in Paris | Je |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent je=Topic |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | a cartoon English boy in Paris *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | boy | ten |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* What should he say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t4:2
# text = What should he say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | boy |  |  |  |  |  | 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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J'ai dix.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t4:o1:1
# text = J'ai dix.
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Je dix ans.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t4:o2:1
# text = Je dix ans.
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	dix	dix	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	ans	an	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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

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J'ai dix ans.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t4:o3:1
# text = J'ai dix ans.
1	J'ai	J'ai	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
2	dix	dix	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	ans	an	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Je suis dix ans.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:7-numbers-21-to-69:t4:o4:1
# text = Je suis dix ans.
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
3	dix	dix	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	ans	an	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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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