--- title: deux means two and sounds like "duh" said with rounded lips; the x i… — Silent letters: why French doesn't say everythin… · tree and pragmatics description: deux means two and sounds like "duh" said with rounded lips; the x is silent. Who acts: deux, x. 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 every clause. --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes, sentence 13 deux means two and sounds like "duh" said with rounded lips; the x is silent. **Who acts:** deux, x · **What happens:** mean, sound, say, round, be · **To what, where:** two · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (deux, x), 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:13 # text = deux means two and sounds like "duh" said with rounded lips; the x is silent. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 deux deux NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 duh duh INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 rounded round VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 x x NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=5:conj 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | deux | two | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Topic | | 2 | **sound** | present | deux *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | with rounded lips | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with lip=Manner | | 4 | **round** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | the x | | | | | 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:13`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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