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title: les cheveux ("lay shuh-VUH") is the hair on your head, always plural… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: les cheveux ("lay shuh-VUH") is the hair on your head, always plural; un cheveu is one single hair. Who acts: les. 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 8

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les cheveux ("lay shuh-VUH") is the hair on your head, always plural; un cheveu is one single hair.

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**Who acts:** les · **What happens:** lay, be · **To what, where:** hair, head, one single hair

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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 (les), 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:8
# text = les cheveux ("lay shuh-VUH") is the hair on your head, always plural; un cheveu is one single hair.
# 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
1	les	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
2	cheveux	Cheveux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	shuh	shuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	VUH	vuh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	cheveu	cheveu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26: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 | **lay** *in a quote* | infinitive | les *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | les | the hair |  | your head |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | one single hair |  |  |  |  | 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:8`.

**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. **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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