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title: Your cousin looks for a "librairie" in Paris to borrow a book for fr… — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics
description: Your cousin looks for a "librairie" in Paris to borrow a book for free. What will he find? Test 5 of lesson 35 «French compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 5 · French compared with English

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Your cousin looks for a "librairie" in Paris to borrow a book for free. What will he find?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cousin · **What happens:** look, borrow, find · **To what, where:** Paris, book

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This is test 5 of lesson 35 «French compared with English» of the language 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/language/35-french-compared-with-english/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your cousin looks for a "librairie" in Paris to borrow a book for free.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t5:1
# text = Your cousin looks for a "librairie" in Paris to borrow a book for free.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	librairie	librairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Your cousin |  |  | Paris |  | for a librairie | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for librairie=Theme in paris=Location |
| 2 | **borrow** | to-infinitive | Your cousin *not said here* | a book |  |  |  | for free | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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:* What will he find?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t5:2
# text = What will he find?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | future | cousin |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A bakery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t5:o1:1
# text = A bakery
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bakery	bakery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A bookshop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t5:o2:1
# text = A bookshop
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bookshop	bookshop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A library

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t5:o3:1
# text = A library
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A pharmacy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t5:o4:1
# text = A pharmacy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pharmacy	pharmacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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