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title: Ava says, "Okay, it's giving, but why the s?" ("It's giving" means i… — Clothes · tree and pragmatics
description: Ava says, "Okay, it's giving, but why the s?" ("It's giving" means it looks good.) Which colour does NOT take an s? Test 11 · ★ 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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# Test 11 · ★ · Clothes

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Ava says, "Okay, it's giving, but why the s?" ("It's giving" means it looks good.) Which colour does NOT take an s?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ava, it, s, giving, colour · **What happens:** say, give, mean, look, not take · **To what, where:** s · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 17 «Clothes» 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/17-clothes/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ava says, "Okay, it's giving, but why the s?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t11:1
# text = Ava says, "Okay, it's giving, but why the s?"
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	iobj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Ava |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent why=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:* ("It's giving" means it looks good.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t11:2
# text = ("It's giving" means it looks good.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | s |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present | giving |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look** | present | s |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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*Sentence 3:* Which colour does NOT take an s?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t11:3
# text = Which colour does NOT take an s?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | present · do-support | which colour | a s |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent s=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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rose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t11:o1:1
# text = rose
1	rose	rose	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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violet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t11:o2:1
# text = violet
1	violet	violet	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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orange

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t11:o3:1
# text = orange
1	orange	orange	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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noir

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t11:o4:1
# text = noir
1	noir	noir	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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