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title: Identify the French term denoting what in Britain are called crisps. — Food and drink · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the French term denoting what in Britain are called crisps. Exam question 2 of lesson 18 «Food and drink» 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 · Food and drink

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Identify the French term denoting what in Britain are called crisps.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, French term · **What happens:** identify, denote, call · **To what, where:** French term · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 18 «Food and drink» 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/18-food-and-drink/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:e2:1
# text = Identify the French term denoting what in Britain are called crisps.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	denoting	denote	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
11	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **denote** | gerund | the French term *not said here* | the French term |  |  |  | in Britain | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in britain=Attribute |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | the French term |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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des frites

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:e2:o1:1
# text = des frites
1	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frites	frite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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des galettes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:e2:o2:1
# text = des galettes
1	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	galettes	galette	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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des croquettes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:e2:o3:1
# text = des croquettes
1	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	croquettes	croquette	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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des chips

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:18-food-and-drink:e2:o4:1
# text = des chips
1	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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