--- title: Isla tries, "They're thongs, er, flip-flops." What should she say in… — Clothes · tree and pragmatics description: Isla tries, "They're thongs, er, flip-flops." What should she say in French? Test 7 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/17-clothes/t7/) [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/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [Clothes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/17-clothes/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Clothes Isla tries, "They're thongs, er, flip-flops." What should she say in French? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Isla, They · **What happens:** try, be, say · **To what, where:** flip flops, thongs, French · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Isla tries, "They're thongs, er, flip-flops." ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t7:1 # text = Isla tries, "They're thongs, er, flip-flops." 1 Isla Isla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 thongs thong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 er er INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 flip flip NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 flops flop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present | Isla | flip flops | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flop=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | They | thongs | | | | | 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 should she say in French? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t7:2 # text = What should she say in French? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | Isla | | | French | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent what=Theme in french=Manner | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} des thongs ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t7:o1:1 # text = des thongs 1 des des DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 thongs thong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} des flip-flops ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t7:o2:1 # text = des flip-flops 1 des des DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 flip flip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 flops flop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} des jandales ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t7:o3:1 # text = des jandales 1 des des DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 jandales jandale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} des tongs ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:17-clothes:t7:o4:1 # text = des tongs 1 des des DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tongs tong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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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