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title: Before a feminine word starting with a vowel sound, ma changes to mo… — My family · tree and pragmatics
description: Before a feminine word starting with a vowel sound, ma changes to mon so it is easy to say: mon amie (my girl friend), mon école. Who acts: feminine word, ma. 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 claus
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# My family, sentence 8

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Before a feminine word starting with a vowel sound, ma changes to mon so it is easy to say: mon amie (my girl friend), mon école.

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**Who acts:** feminine word, ma · **What happens:** start, change, be, say · **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 (feminine word, ma), 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:8
# text = Before a feminine word starting with a vowel sound, ma changes to mon so it is easy to say: mon amie (my girl friend), mon école.
# 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	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	ma	ma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	expl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	amie	amie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	école	école	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | gerund | a feminine word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a vowel sound | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sound=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **change** | present | ma |  |  |  | before a feminine word | to mon *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to mon=Result |
| 3 | **is** | present | ma *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:8`.

**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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