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title: des chaussures noires means black shoes: the noun takes s and the co… — Clothes · tree and pragmatics
description: des chaussures noires means black shoes: the noun takes s and the colour takes e (feminine) and s (plural). Who acts: chaussures, noun, colour. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Clothes, sentence 12

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des chaussures noires means black shoes: the noun takes s and the colour takes e (feminine) and s (plural).

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**Who acts:** chaussures, noun, colour · **What happens:** mean, take · **To what, where:** black shoes, s, e

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clothes» 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 (chaussures, noun, colour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:017-clothes.lesson:12
# text = des chaussures noires means black shoes: the noun takes s and the colour takes e (feminine) and s (plural).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 017-clothes.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	des	de	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chaussures	chaussure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	noires	noir	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	s	s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
21	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	appos	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **mean** | present | de chaussures | black shoes |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | present | the noun | s |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent s=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present | the colour | e and s |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Theme |

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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:017-clothes.lesson:12`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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