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title: août (August) sounds like "OOT" or "OO"; the a is silent and the lit… — Days of the week and months · tree and pragmatics
description: août (August) sounds like "OOT" or "OO"; the a is silent and the little hat sits on the u. Who acts: août, little hat. A sentence of the lesson «Days of the week and months» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Days of the week and months, sentence 11

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août (August) sounds like "OOT" or "OO"; the a is silent and the little hat sits on the u.

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**Who acts:** août, little hat · **What happens:** sound, be, sit · **To what, where:** u.

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Days of the week and months» 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 (août, little hat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:010-days-of-the-week-and-months.lesson:11
# text = août (August) sounds like "OOT" or "OO"; the a is silent and the little hat sits on the u.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 010-days-of-the-week-and-months.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	août	août	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
3	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	OOT	oot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	OO	OO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	reparandum	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	reparandum	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	u.	U.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
```

## 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 | **sound** | present | août |  |  |  |  | like OOT or OO | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | present | the little hat |  |  | the u. |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on u.=Location |

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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:010-days-of-the-week-and-months.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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