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title: After ne ... pas, un, une and des usually change to de: j'ai une sœu… — My family · tree and pragmatics
description: After ne ... pas, un, une and des usually change to de: j'ai une sœur, but je n'ai pas de sœur (I don't have a sister). Who acts: you, pas, I. 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 6

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After ne ... pas, un, une and des usually change to de: j'ai une sœur, but je n'ai pas de sœur (I don't have a sister).

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**Who acts:** you, pas, I · **What happens:** change, sœur, not have · **To what, where:** ne, sister

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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, pas, I), 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:6
# text = After ne ... pas, un, une and des usually change to de: j'ai une sœur, but je n'ai pas de sœur (I don't have a sister).
# 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): no change
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
2	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	pas	pa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	des	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	j'ai	j'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	amod	_	_
17	une	une	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat	_	_
18	sœur	sœur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	nmod	_	_
22	n'ai	n'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	flat	_	_
23	pas	pa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	conj	_	_
25	sœur	sœur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **change** | imperative | you *not said here* | ne and pas and un and une and j'ai sœur but sœur |  |  |  | to de *result*; usually *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to de=Result |
| 2 | **sœur** |  | pas  je |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | I | a sister |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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