--- title: A French calendar starts the week on lundi; picture Liam reading it… — Days of the week and months · tree and pragmatics description: A French calendar starts the week on lundi; picture Liam reading it as if Sunday came first and turning up for football a day late. Who acts: French calendar, Liam, Sunday. 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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 (French calendar, Liam, Sunday), 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:3 # text = A French calendar starts the week on lundi; picture Liam reading it as if Sunday came first and turning up for football a day late. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 calendar calendar NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 lundi Lundi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 picture picture VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 11 Liam Liam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked 26 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 27 . . 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 | **start** | present | a French calendar | | | lundi | week | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **picture** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 3 | **read** | gerund | Liam | calendar | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **come** | past | Sunday | | | | | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **turn up** | gerund | Liam *not said here* | | | | | for football; late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:010-days-of-the-week-and-months.lesson:3`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Days of the week and months, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/2/) - next →: [Days of the week and months, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/)