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title: Some clothes words are traps for English speakers: une veste is a ja… — Clothes · tree and pragmatics
description: Some clothes words are traps for English speakers: une veste is a jacket, not a vest, des baskets are trainers, not baskets, and une robe is a dress, not a dressing gown. Who acts: clothes words, une veste, des baskets, une robe. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes» of the french course of Mova's prim
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# Clothes, sentence 0

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Some clothes words are traps for English speakers: une veste is a jacket, not a vest, des baskets are trainers, not baskets, and une robe is a dress, not a dressing gown.

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**Who acts:** clothes words, une veste, des baskets, une robe · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** traps, jacket, trainers, dress

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clothes» of the french course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes words, une veste, des baskets, une robe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:017-clothes.lesson:0
# text = Some clothes words are traps for English speakers: une veste is a jacket, not a vest, des baskets are trainers, not baskets, and une robe is a dress, not a dressing gown.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 017-clothes.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	compound	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	veste	veste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	vest	vest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
20	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | some clothes words | traps and a dress and a dressing gown |  |  |  | for English speakers | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | une veste | a jacket and a vest and trainers and baskets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | des baskets | trainers and baskets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | une robe | a dress and a dressing gown |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:french:017-clothes.lesson:0`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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