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title: Picture a French kitchen: the children call their grandparents mamie… — My family · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a French kitchen: the children call their grandparents mamie and papi, like nan and grandad, while a school form says grand-mère and grand-père. Who acts: you, children, school form. A sentence of the lesson «My family» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# My family, sentence 2

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Picture a French kitchen: the children call their grandparents mamie and papi, like nan and grandad, while a school form says grand-mère and grand-père.

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**Who acts:** you, children, school form · **What happens:** picture, call, say · **To what, where:** French kitchen, grandparents, grand mère · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, children, school form), 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:2
# text = Picture a French kitchen: the children call their grandparents mamie and papi, like nan and grandad, while a school form says grand-mère and grand-père.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	mamie	mamie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	papi	papi	NOUN	FW	_	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
25	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	mère	mère	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	grand	grand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	père	père	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a French kitchen |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kitchen=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present | the children | children's grandparents |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandparent=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a school form | grand mère and grand père |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mère=Topic |

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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: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 ×1, 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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