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title: J'ai deux frères means "I have two brothers"; the plural s is writte… — My family · tree and pragmatics
description: J'ai deux frères means "I have two brothers"; the plural s is written but not heard. Who acts: J'ai, school form. 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 clause.
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# My family, sentence 5

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J'ai deux frères means "I have two brothers"; the plural s is written but not heard.

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**Who acts:** J'ai, school form · **What happens:** mean, have, write, not hear · **To what, where:** two brothers, plural s · **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 (J'ai, 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:5
# text = J'ai deux frères means "I have two brothers"; the plural s is written but not heard.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	J'ai	j'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
2	deux	deux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	frères	frère	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **mean** | present | J'ai |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | a school form *= form* | two brothers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 3 | **write** | present · passive |  | the plural s |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **hear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:5`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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