--- title: In French ou says "oo" and oi says "wa": Louis sounds like "LWEE", m… — Silent letters: why French doesn't say everythin… · tree and pragmatics description: In French ou says "oo" and oi says "wa": Louis sounds like "LWEE", moi like "mwa" and un croissant like "uhn krwa-SAHN". Who acts: ou, oi, Louis. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ou, oi, Louis), 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:12 # text = In French ou says "oo" and oi says "wa": Louis sounds like "LWEE", moi like "mwa" and un croissant like "uhn krwa-SAHN". # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 ou ou X FW Foreign=Yes 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 oi oi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 wa wa NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Louis Louis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 LWEE LWEE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 moi moi X FW Foreign=Yes 19 flat:foreign _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 mwa mwa NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 croissant croissant NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 32 uhn uhn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 krwa krwa NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 35 SAHN SAHN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ou | oo | | French | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent oo=Theme in french=Manner | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | oi | wa | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wa=Topic | | 3 | **sound** | present | Louis | | | | | like LWEE like mwa and un croissant like uhn krwa | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:12`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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