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title: une tortue is a tortoise or turtle and is always feminine, whether t… — Pets and animals · tree and pragmatics
description: une tortue is a tortoise or turtle and is always feminine, whether the animal is a boy or a girl. Who acts: une tortue, animal. 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 12

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une tortue is a tortoise or turtle and is always feminine, whether the animal is a boy or a girl.

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**Who acts:** une tortue, animal · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** tortoise, boy

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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 (une tortue, animal), 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:12
# text = une tortue is a tortoise or turtle and is always feminine, whether the animal is a boy or a girl.
# 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): no change
1	une	une	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	tortue	tortue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | une tortue | a tortoise or turtle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | une tortue *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always, feminine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the animal | a boy or a girl |  |  |  |  | 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:015-pets-and-animals.lesson:12`.

**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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