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title: Many French primary schools have no lessons on Wednesday, and childr… — Days of the week and months · tree and pragmatics
description: Many French primary schools have no lessons on Wednesday, and children do clubs or sport; le mercredi (with le) means "on Wednesdays, every week". Who acts: Many French primary schools, children, le mercredi. A sentence of the lesson «Days of the week and months» of the french course of Mova's prima
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# Days of the week and months, sentence 8

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Many French primary schools have no lessons on Wednesday, and children do clubs or sport; le mercredi (with le) means "on Wednesdays, every week".

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**Who acts:** Many French primary schools, children, le mercredi · **What happens:** have, do, mean · **To what, where:** lessons, clubs

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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 (Many French primary schools, children, le mercredi), 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:8
# text = Many French primary schools have no lessons on Wednesday, and children do clubs or sport; le mercredi (with le) means "on Wednesdays, every week".
# 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 ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	mercredi	mercredi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Wednesdays	Wednesday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Many French primary schools | no lessons |  |  |  | on Wednesday | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | children | clubs or sport |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Eventuality |
| 3 | **mean** | present | le mercredi |  |  |  | wednesday |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:8`.

**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 ×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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