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title: Plural letters are often silent: deux frères sounds exactly like deu… — My family · tree and pragmatics
description: Plural letters are often silent: deux frères sounds exactly like deux frère, so you can only see the s, not hear it. Who acts: Plural letters, deux frères, you. 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 cla
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# My family, sentence 3

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Plural letters are often silent: deux frères sounds exactly like deux frère, so you can only see the s, not hear it.

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**Who acts:** Plural letters, deux frères, you · **What happens:** be, sound, see, not hear · **To what, where:** s

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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 (Plural letters, deux frères, you), 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:3
# text = Plural letters are often silent: deux frères sounds exactly like deux frère, so you can only see the s, not hear it.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	deux	deux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	frères	frère	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	deux	deux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	frère	frère	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | Plural letters |  |  |  |  | often, silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sound** | present | deux frères |  |  |  |  | like deux frère | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | can | you | the s |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer s=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **hear** | infinitive | you *not said here* | s |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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:3`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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