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title: A French date is a little recipe: le, then the number, then the mont… — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: A French date is a little recipe: le, then the number, then the month, so the 14th of October is le quatorze octobre. Who acts: French date, 14th. A sentence of the lesson «Dates and birthdays» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dates and birthdays, sentence 0

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A French date is a little recipe: le, then the number, then the month, so the 14th of October is le quatorze octobre.

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**Who acts:** French date, 14th · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** little recipe, quatorze octobre

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dates and birthdays» 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 (French date, 14th), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:011-dates-and-birthdays.lesson:0
# text = A French date is a little recipe: le, then the number, then the month, so the 14th of October is le quatorze octobre.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 011-dates-and-birthdays.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	recipe	recipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	14th	14th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	quatorze	quatorze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	octobre	octobre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | a French date | a little recipe and the number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the 14th of October | quatorze octobre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:011-dates-and-birthdays.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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