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title: la bouche ("BOOSH") is the mouth and is feminine: ma bouche, even fo… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: la bouche ("BOOSH") is the mouth and is feminine: ma bouche, even for a boy. Who acts: la. 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 14

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la bouche ("BOOSH") is the mouth and is feminine: ma bouche, even for a boy.

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**Who acts:** la · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mouth

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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 (la), 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:14
# text = la bouche ("BOOSH") is the mouth and is feminine: ma bouche, even for a boy.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	la	la	X	GW	_	10	nsubj	_	_
2	bouche	bouche	X	NN	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	BOOSH	BOOSH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat:foreign	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bouche	bouche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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** | present | la | the mouth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | la *not said here* |  |  |  |  | feminine *property* | 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:14`.

**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 ×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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