--- title: et means "and" and sounds like "ay"; its t is always silent: un chat… — Silent letters: why French doesn't say everythin… · tree and pragmatics description: et means "and" and sounds like "ay"; its t is always silent: un chat et un chien (a cat and a dog). Who acts: et, t. A sentence of the lesson «Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Silent letters: why French doesn't say…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/1-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes/) / 10 # Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes, sentence 10 et means "and" and sounds like "ay"; its t is always silent: un chat et un chien (a cat and a dog). **Who acts:** et, t · **What happens:** mean, sound, be This is a sentence of the lesson «Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes» 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 (et, t), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:001-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes.lesson:10 # text = et means "and" and sounds like "ay"; its t is always silent: un chat et un chien (a cat and a dog). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 001-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes.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 et et X FW Foreign=Yes 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 ay ay NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 t t NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 always always ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 un un X FW Foreign=Yes 20 compound _ _ 20 chat chat X FW Foreign=Yes 21 compound _ _ 21 et et X FW Foreign=Yes 23 compound _ _ 22 un un X FW Foreign=Yes 23 compound _ _ 23 chien chien NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | et | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sound** | present | et *not said here* | | | | | like ay | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | ay's t | | | | | always, silent *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:001-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes.lesson:10`. **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. 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