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title: In French, days and months are written with a small letter, so you w… — Days of the week and months · tree and pragmatics
description: In French, days and months are written with a small letter, so you write lundi and janvier, not Lundi and Janvier, unless they start a sentence. Who acts: you, lundi. 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
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# Days of the week and months, sentence 2

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In French, days and months are written with a small letter, so you write lundi and janvier, not Lundi and Janvier, unless they start a sentence.

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**Who acts:** you, lundi · **What happens:** write, start · **To what, where:** days, French, lundi, sentence

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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 (you, lundi), 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:2
# text = In French, days and months are written with a small letter, so you write lundi and janvier, not Lundi and Janvier, unless they start a sentence.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	lundi	Lundi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	janvier	Janvier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	Lundi	Lundi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Janvier	Janvier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **write** | present · passive |  | days and months |  | French |  | with a small letter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in french=Destination |
| 2 | **write** | present | you | lundi and janvier and Lundi and Janvier |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lundi=Theme |
| 3 | **start** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | lundi | a sentence |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Eventuality |

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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:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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