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title: Only the first day of a month is special: it is le premier mai (the… — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Only the first day of a month is special: it is le premier mai (the first of May), but after that just plain numbers, le deux mai, le trois mai. Who acts: first day, date. A sentence of the lesson «Dates and birthdays» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Dates and birthdays, sentence 1

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Only the first day of a month is special: it is le premier mai (the first of May), but after that just plain numbers, le deux mai, le trois mai.

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**Who acts:** first day, date · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** le premier

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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 (first day, date), 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:1
# text = Only the first day of a month is special: it is le premier mai (the first of May), but after that just plain numbers, le deux mai, le trois mai.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	premier	premier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
15	mai	mai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod
27	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	parataxis	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	deux	deux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	mai	mai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	dep	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	trois	trois	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	conj	_	_
36	mai	mai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	dep	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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** | present | the first day of a month |  |  |  |  | special *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | date | le premier |  |  |  |  | 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:1`.

**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 ×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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