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title: des tongs ("TONG") are flip-flops, which Australians call thongs and… — Clothes · tree and pragmatics
description: des tongs ("TONG") are flip-flops, which Australians call thongs and New Zealanders call jandals; des sandales are sandals. Who acts: des tongs, Australians, New Zealanders, des sandales. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Clothes, sentence 11

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des tongs ("TONG") are flip-flops, which Australians call thongs and New Zealanders call jandals; des sandales are sandals.

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**Who acts:** des tongs, Australians, New Zealanders, des sandales · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** flip flops, jandals, sandals · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (des tongs, Australians, New Zealanders, des sandales), 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:11
# text = des tongs ("TONG") are flip-flops, which Australians call thongs and New Zealanders call jandals; des sandales are sandals.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	des	Des	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tongs	tong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	TONG	tong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	flip	flip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
11	flops	flop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	Australians	australian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	thongs	thong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
18	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Zealanders	zealander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	jandals	jandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	des	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	sandales	sandale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	parataxis	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | des tongs | flip flops |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | present | Australians | flip flops |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
| 3 | **call** | present | New Zealanders | jandals |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | des sandales | sandals |  |  |  |  | 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:11`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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