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title: Identify the correct French term for the coins returned to a purchas… — False friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the correct French term for the coins returned to a purchaser after payment. Exam question 4 of lesson 35 «False friends» 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 right.
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# Exam question 4 · False friends

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Identify the correct French term for the coins returned to a purchaser after payment.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, coins · **What happens:** identify, return · **To what, where:** correct French term

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 35 «False friends» 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/35-false-friends/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:e4:1
# text = Identify the correct French term for the coins returned to a purchaser after payment.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	purchaser	purchaser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 correct French term |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past | the coins |  |  |  | after payment | to a purchaser *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to purchaser=Result |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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la monnaie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:e4:o1:1
# text = la monnaie
1	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	monnaie	monnaie	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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le collège

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:e4:o2:1
# text = le collège
1	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	collège	collège	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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la location

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:e4:o3:1
# text = la location
1	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	location	location	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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l'argent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:35-false-friends:e4:o4:1
# text = l'argent
1	l'argent	l'argent	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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**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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