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title: Silhouette is a French word spelled S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E, named after… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics
description: Silhouette is a French word spelled S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E, named after a French government minister, Étienne de Silhouette. Who acts: Silhouette, French word. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 9

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Silhouette is a French word spelled S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E, named after a French government minister, Étienne de Silhouette.

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**Who acts:** Silhouette, French word · **What happens:** be, spell, name · **To what, where:** French word, S

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» of the english 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 (Silhouette, French word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:9
# text = Silhouette is a French word spelled S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E, named after a French government minister, Étienne de Silhouette.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.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): no change
1	Silhouette	silhouette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	S	S	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	L	L	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	H	H	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
15	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	U	U	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
21	T	T	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	T	T	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
25	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Étienne	Étienne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
35	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
36	Silhouette	Silhouette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Silhouette | a French word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spell** | participle | a French word *not said here* | S |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent s=Theme |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  | a French word *not said here* |  |  | after a French government minister |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:english:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:9`.

**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): no change. **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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