--- title: The quickest way to learn the body in French is a game: in Jacques a… — The body · tree and pragmatics description: The quickest way to learn the body in French is a game: in Jacques a dit, touchez la tête ! means "Simon says, touch your head!", and anyone who touches a knee is out. Who acts: quickest way, Simon, anyone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quickest way, Simon, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:016-the-body.lesson:0 # text = The quickest way to learn the body in French is a game: in Jacques a dit, touchez la tête ! means "Simon says, touch your head!", and anyone who touches a knee is out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 016-the-body.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 quickest quick ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Jacques Jacques PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 dit dit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 touchez touchez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 20 la la NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 21 tête tête X FW Foreign=Yes 20 flat _ _ 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 Simon Simon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 35 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 41 nsubj _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 out out ADV RB _ 23 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | to-infinitive | the quickest way *not said here* | the body | | French | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | the quickest way | a game | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | Jacques a dit | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | Simon | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **touch** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your head | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme | | 6 | **touch** | present | | a knee | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme knee=Co-Theme | | 7 | **is** | present | anyone | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:016-the-body.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Pets and animals, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/15-pets-and-animals/16/) - next →: [The body, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/16-the-body/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/16-the-body/)