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title: Bon anniversaire ! is the usual "happy birthday", and Joyeux anniver… — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Bon anniversaire ! is the usual "happy birthday", and Joyeux anniversaire is what people sing, to the same tune as in English. Who acts: Bon anniversaire, Joyeux anniversaire. A sentence of the lesson «Dates and birthdays» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Dates and birthdays, sentence 9

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Bon anniversaire ! is the usual "happy birthday", and Joyeux anniversaire is what people sing, to the same tune as in English.

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**Who acts:** Bon anniversaire, Joyeux anniversaire · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** usual happy birthday · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bon anniversaire, Joyeux anniversaire), 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:9
# text = Bon anniversaire ! is the usual "happy birthday", and Joyeux anniversaire is what people sing, to the same tune as in English.
# 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 ×1
1	Bon	Bon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	anniversaire	anniversaire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	Joyeux	Joyeux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	anniversaire	anniversaire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Bon anniversaire | the usual happy birthday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *speech: express* | present | Joyeux anniversaire |  |  |  |  | to the same tune as English; sing *property* | 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:9`.

**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 ×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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