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title: Most words ending in -al change to -aux in the plural: un cheval, de… — Pets and animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Most words ending in -al change to -aux in the plural: un cheval, des chevaux (horses); un animal, des animaux. Who acts: Most words. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and animals» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pets and animals, sentence 10

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Most words ending in -al change to -aux in the plural: un cheval, des chevaux (horses); un animal, des animaux.

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**Who acts:** Most words · **What happens:** end, change · **To what, where:** al, plural un cheval

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and animals» 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 (Most words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:015-pets-and-animals.lesson:10
# text = Most words ending in -al change to -aux in the plural: un cheval, des chevaux (horses); un animal, des animaux.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 015-pets-and-animals.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
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	aux	aux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
13	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cheval	cheval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	chevaux	chevaux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	animaux	animaux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **end** | gerund | Most words *not said here* |  |  | al |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **change** | present | Most words |  |  | plural un cheval and des chevaux and des animaux |  | to aux *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to aux=Result |

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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:015-pets-and-animals.lesson:10`.

**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. **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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