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title: You write le hamster, not l'hamster, because some words starting wit… — Pets and animals · tree and pragmatics
description: You write le hamster, not l'hamster, because some words starting with h act as if they began with a consonant; others, like l'hôtel and l'homme, don't. Who acts: You, words, hamster, others. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and animals» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Pets and animals, sentence 6

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You write le hamster, not l'hamster, because some words starting with h act as if they began with a consonant; others, like l'hôtel and l'homme, don't.

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**Who acts:** You, words, hamster, others · **What happens:** write, start, act, begin, not do · **To what, where:** le hamster, words

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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, words, hamster, others), 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:6
# text = You write le hamster, not l'hamster, because some words starting with h act as if they began with a consonant; others, like l'hôtel and l'homme, don't.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	le	le	X	FW	_	4	flat:foreign	_	_
4	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	l'hamster	l'hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	h	h	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	act	act	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	consonant	consonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	l'hôtel	L'hôtel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	l'homme	l'homme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
31	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
32	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | You | le hamster not l'hamster |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | gerund | some words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with h | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with h=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **act** | present | some words |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | past | hamster |  |  |  |  | with a consonant | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with consonant=Subeventuality |
| 5 | **not** **do** | infinitive | others like l'hôtel and l'homme | some words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |

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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:6`.

**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, R8-pos-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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