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title: Children call their grandmother mamie and their grandfather papi (or… — My family · tree and pragmatics
description: Children call their grandmother mamie and their grandfather papi (or papy); the full words are la grand-mère and le grand-père. Who acts: Children, full words. 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 clau
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# My family, sentence 9

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Children call their grandmother mamie and their grandfather papi (or papy); the full words are la grand-mère and le grand-père.

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**Who acts:** Children, full words · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** grandmother, grand mère · **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 (Children, full words), 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:9
# text = Children call their grandmother mamie and their grandfather papi (or papy); the full words are la grand-mère and le grand-père.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	mamie	mamie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	papi	papi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	papy	papy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
22	mère	mère	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
27	père	père	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Children |  | children's grandmother |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandmother=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the full words | la grand mère and le grand père |  |  |  |  | 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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**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 ×2, 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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