--- title: A cartoon French kid says "Je suis faim!" for "I'm hungry". What's t… — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics description: A cartoon French kid says "Je suis faim!" for "I'm hungry". What's the usual French? Test 8 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/35-french-compared-with-english/t8/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [French compared with English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/35-french-compared-with-english/) / t8 # Test 8 · French compared with English A cartoon French kid says "Je suis faim!" for "I'm hungry". What's the usual French? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon French kid, usual French · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A cartoon French kid says "Je suis faim!" for "I'm hungry". ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t8:1 # text = A cartoon French kid says "Je suis faim!" for "I'm hungry". 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 5 dep _ _ 8 suis suis X FW Foreign=Yes 7 flat:foreign _ _ 9 faim faim X FW Foreign=Yes 7 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a cartoon French kid | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a cartoon French kid *= kid* | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | 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:* What's the usual French? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t8:2 # text = What's the usual French? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the usual French | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} J'ai froid ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t8:o1:1 # text = J'ai froid 1 J'ai J'ai X FW _ 2 compound _ _ 2 froid froid NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Je suis faim ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t8:o2:1 # text = Je suis faim 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 suis suis X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 faim faim X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} J'ai faim ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t8:o3:1 # text = J'ai faim 1 J'ai J'ai X FW _ 2 compound _ _ 2 faim faim NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Je faim ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:35-french-compared-with-english:t8:o4:1 # text = Je faim 1 Je Je X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ 2 faim faim X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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