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title: Identify the meaning of the French noun une veste. — Clothes · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the meaning of the French noun une veste. Exam question 2 of lesson 17 «Clothes» 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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# Exam question 2 · Clothes

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Identify the meaning of the French noun une veste.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, mean · **To what, where:** meaning, French une veste

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 17 «Clothes» of the French course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/17-clothes/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:e2:1
# text = Identify the meaning of the French noun une veste.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	veste	veste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the meaning of the French une veste |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** |  |  | the French une veste |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A vest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:e2:o1:1
# text = A vest
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vest	vest	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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A pair of trainers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:e2:o2:1
# text = A pair of trainers
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A dressing gown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:e2:o3:1
# text = A dressing gown
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A jacket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:e2:o4:1
# text = A jacket
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jacket	jacket	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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