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title: Some plurals are odd: one eye is un œil but two eyes are deux yeux,… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: Some plurals are odd: one eye is un œil but two eyes are deux yeux, and one knee is un genou but knees are des genoux. Who acts: plurals, one eye, two eyes, knees. 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 c
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# The body, sentence 3

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Some plurals are odd: one eye is un œil but two eyes are deux yeux, and one knee is un genou but knees are des genoux.

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**Who acts:** plurals, one eye, two eyes, knees · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** un œil, deux yeux, knee un

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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 (plurals, one eye, two eyes, knees), 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:3
# text = Some plurals are odd: one eye is un œil but two eyes are deux yeux, and one knee is un genou but knees are des genoux.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	plurals	plural	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	œil	œil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	deux	deux	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	yeux	yeux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
23	genou	genou	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	dep	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	genoux	genoux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some plurals |  |  |  |  | odd *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | one eye | un œil but deux yeux and knee un |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | two eyes | deux yeux |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | one eye *not said here* | knee un |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | knees |  |  |  |  | de *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:3`.

**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): 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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