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title: le nez ("NAY") is the nose; the z is silent and the plural is also n… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: le nez ("NAY") is the nose; the z is silent and the plural is also nez. Who acts: le, z. 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 9

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le nez ("NAY") is the nose; the z is silent and the plural is also nez.

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**Who acts:** le, z · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** nose, nez

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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 (le, z), 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:9
# text = le nez ("NAY") is the nose; the z is silent and the plural is also nez.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	nez	nez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	NAY	nay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	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	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	nez	nez	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 a** | present | le | the nose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the z |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the z *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | nez |  |  |  |  | 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:9`.

**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): 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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