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title: Picture a gate in Provence with the sign Attention au chien !: atten… — Pets and animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a gate in Provence with the sign Attention au chien !: attention here means watch out, not pay attention, so you stay outside. Who acts: you, attention. 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 ev
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# Pets and animals, sentence 3

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Picture a gate in Provence with the sign Attention au chien !: attention here means watch out, not pay attention, so you stay outside.

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**Who acts:** you, attention · **What happens:** picture, mean, watch out, not pay, stay · **To what, where:** gate, Provence, attention · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, attention), 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:3
# text = Picture a gate in Provence with the sign Attention au chien !: attention here means watch out, not pay attention, so you stay outside.
# 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	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Provence	provence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
8	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	chien	chien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
17	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
27	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a gate |  | Provence with au chien |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent gate=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | attention |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **watch out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **pay** | infinitive |  | attention |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 5 | **stay** | present | you |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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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