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title: un maillot de bain ("ma-YO duh BAN") is a swimsuit or swimming trunk… — Clothes · tree and pragmatics
description: un maillot de bain ("ma-YO duh BAN") is a swimsuit or swimming trunks; le maillot jaune is the yellow jersey in the Tour de France. Who acts: un maillot, le maillot jaune. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Clothes, sentence 14

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un maillot de bain ("ma-YO duh BAN") is a swimsuit or swimming trunks; le maillot jaune is the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.

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**Who acts:** un maillot, le maillot jaune · **What happens:** be, swim · **To what, where:** swimsuit, yellow jersey, Tour de France

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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 (un maillot, le maillot jaune), 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:14
# text = un maillot de bain ("ma-YO duh BAN") is a swimsuit or swimming trunks; le maillot jaune is the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
2	maillot	maillot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	bain	bain	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	YO	YO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	BAN	BAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	swimsuit	swimsuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct
21	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	maillot	maillot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	jaune	jaune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	jersey	jersey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	Tour	Tour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | un maillot | a swimsuit and trunks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim** | gerund | un maillot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | le maillot jaune | the yellow jersey |  | the Tour de France |  |  | 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:017-clothes.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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