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title: The song Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds is the French "Head, shoulde… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: The song Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds is the French "Head, shoulders, knees and toes"; un genou (knee) becomes des genoux in the plural. Who acts: Tête, un. A sentence of the lesson «The body» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The body, sentence 11

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The song Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds is the French "Head, shoulders, knees and toes"; un genou (knee) becomes des genoux in the plural.

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**Who acts:** Tête, un · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** French Head, des genoux, plural · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The body» 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 (Tête, un), 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:11
# text = The song Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds is the French "Head, shoulders, knees and toes"; un genou (knee) becomes des genoux in the plural.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Tête	Tête	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	épaules	épaule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	genoux	genou	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nmod	_	_
9	pieds	pied	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	genou	genou	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
26	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	des	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	flat:foreign	_	_
30	genoux	genou	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	xcomp	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	plural	plural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28: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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Tête  the song | the French Head and shoulders and knees and toes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | present | un | des genoux |  | the plural |  |  | 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:016-the-body.lesson:11`.

**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, 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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