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title: un poisson rouge means a goldfish, word for word "a red fish". — Pets and animals · tree and pragmatics
description: un poisson rouge means a goldfish, word for word "a red fish". Who acts: poisson rouge. 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 7

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un poisson rouge means a goldfish, word for word "a red fish".

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**Who acts:** poisson rouge · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** goldfish

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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 (poisson rouge), 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:7
# text = un poisson rouge means a goldfish, word for word "a red fish".
# 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 ×2
1	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poisson	poisson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj
3	rouge	rouge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **mean** | present | poisson rouge | a goldfish and word for word |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Topic |

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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:7`.

**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 ×2. **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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