--- title: France writes dates day first, like the UK, so 05/03 is the 5th of M… — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: France writes dates day first, like the UK, so 05/03 is the 5th of March; an American reading it as May 3rd would send a birthday card two months late. Who acts: France, 05/03, American reading. 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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 (France, 05/03, American reading), 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:2 # text = France writes dates day first, like the UK, so 05/03 is the 5th of March; an American reading it as May 3rd would send a birthday card two months late. # 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 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 2 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 05/03 05/03 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 5th 5th NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 2 parataxis _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:unmarked _ _ 25 3rd 3rd NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 21 obl _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl:unmarked 33 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | present | France | dates | | | | like the UK; first *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | 05/03 | the 5th | | | march | | tree rules | | 3 | **send** | would | American reading | a birthday card | | | | late *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=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:011-dates-and-birthdays.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 ×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: [Dates and birthdays, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/1/) - next →: [Dates and birthdays, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/)