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title: un cousin is a boy cousin and une cousine ("koo-ZEEN") is a girl cou… — My family · tree and pragmatics
description: un cousin is a boy cousin and une cousine ("koo-ZEEN") is a girl cousin; un oncle is an uncle and une tante is an aunt. Who acts: un cousin, une cousine, un oncle. A sentence of the lesson «My family» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# My family, sentence 10

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un cousin is a boy cousin and une cousine ("koo-ZEEN") is a girl cousin; un oncle is an uncle and une tante is an aunt.

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**Who acts:** un cousin, une cousine, un oncle · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** boy cousin, girl cousin, uncle, une aunt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «My family» 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 (un cousin, une cousine, un oncle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:014-my-family.lesson:10
# text = un cousin is a boy cousin and une cousine ("koo-ZEEN") is a girl cousin; un oncle is an uncle and une tante is an aunt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 014-my-family.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	une	une	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
9	cousine	cousine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	koo	koo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	ZEEN	ZEEN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	oncle	oncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	une	une	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	amod	_	_
29	tante	tante	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	flat	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26: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** | present | un cousin | a boy cousin and a girl cousin and a uncle and a une aunt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | une cousine | a girl cousin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | un oncle | a uncle and a une aunt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | un oncle *not said here* | a une aunt |  |  |  |  | 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:014-my-family.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-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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