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title: Colours still agree with clothes: black shoes are des chaussures noi… — Clothes · tree and pragmatics
description: Colours still agree with clothes: black shoes are des chaussures noires, with an e because chaussure is feminine and an s because there are two. Who acts: Colours, black shoes, chaussure, two. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Clothes, sentence 3

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Colours still agree with clothes: black shoes are des chaussures noires, with an e because chaussure is feminine and an s because there are two.

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**Who acts:** Colours, black shoes, chaussure, two · **What happens:** agree, be · **To what, where:** chaussures noires

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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 (Colours, black shoes, chaussure, two), 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:3
# text = Colours still agree with clothes: black shoes are des chaussures noires, with an e because chaussure is feminine and an s because there are two.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	chaussures	chaussure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	noires	noire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	mark	_	_
18	chaussure	chaussure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:advcl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Colours |  |  |  | still | with clothes | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with clothes=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | black shoes | chaussures noires |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | chaussure |  |  |  |  | feminine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | two |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: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): 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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