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title: Your mate writes "un rouge voiture" for "a red car". What would a Fr… — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate writes "un rouge voiture" for "a red car". What would a French person say? Test 7 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · French compared with English

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Your mate writes "un rouge voiture" for "a red car". What would a French person say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, French person · **What happens:** write, say · **To what, where:** un rouge voiture · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate writes "un rouge voiture" for "a red car".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t7:1
# text = Your mate writes "un rouge voiture" for "a red car".
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	rouge	rouge	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
7	voiture	voiture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Your mate | un rouge voiture |  |  |  | for a red car | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent voiture=Result for car=Beneficiary |

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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 would a French person say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t7:2
# text = What would a French person 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	person	person	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 person |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Une rouge voiture

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t7:o1:1
# text = Une rouge voiture
1	Une	une	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rouge	rouge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	voiture	voiture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rouge une voiture

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t7:o2:1
# text = Rouge une voiture
1	Rouge	Rouge	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
2	une	une	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	voiture	voiture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Une voiture rouge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t7:o3:1
# text = Une voiture rouge
1	Une	Une	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	voiture	voiture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rouge	rouge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Le rouge voiture

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t7:o4:1
# text = Le rouge voiture
1	Le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rouge	rouge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	voiture	voiture	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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