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title: Animal names can be funny pictures: a goldfish is un poisson rouge,… — Pets and animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Animal names can be funny pictures: a goldfish is un poisson rouge, "a red fish", and a guinea pig is un cochon d'Inde, "a pig from India". Who acts: goldfish, guinea pig. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and animals» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Pets and animals, sentence 2

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Animal names can be funny pictures: a goldfish is un poisson rouge, "a red fish", and a guinea pig is un cochon d'Inde, "a pig from India".

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**Who acts:** goldfish, guinea pig · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** funny pictures, un poisson rouge, un

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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 (goldfish, guinea pig), 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:2
# text = Animal names can be funny pictures: a goldfish is un poisson rouge, "a red fish", and a guinea pig is un cochon d'Inde, "a pig from India".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	poisson	poisson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rouge	rouge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
27	cochon	cochon	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	dep	_	_
28	d'Inde	d'Inde	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	flat	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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** | can |  | funny pictures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a goldfish | un poisson rouge and un |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a guinea pig | un |  |  |  |  | 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:2`.

**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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