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title: "My" is mon before a masculine word (mon père), ma before a feminine… — My family · tree and pragmatics
description: "My" is mon before a masculine word (mon père), ma before a feminine word (ma mère) and mes before a plural (mes parents). Who acts: My. 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 7

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"My" is mon before a masculine word (mon père), ma before a feminine word (ma mère) and mes before a plural (mes parents).

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**Who acts:** My · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mon

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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 (My), 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:7
# text = "My" is mon before a masculine word (mon père), ma before a feminine word (ma mère) and mes before a plural (mes parents).
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
11	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	père	père	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
21	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	mère	mère	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	mes	me	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det
28	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
30	mes	me	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	compound	_	_
31	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	.	.	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 a** | present | My | mon |  |  | before a masculine word before a feminine word and mes before plural mes parents and ma |  | 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:7`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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