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title: un pantalon ("pahn-ta-LON") is one pair of trousers and is singular;… — Clothes · tree and pragmatics
description: un pantalon ("pahn-ta-LON") is one pair of trousers and is singular; so are un jean and un short. Who acts: un pantalon. 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 5

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un pantalon ("pahn-ta-LON") is one pair of trousers and is singular; so are un jean and un short.

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**Who acts:** un pantalon · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one pair, un jean

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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 pantalon), 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:5
# text = un pantalon ("pahn-ta-LON") is one pair of trousers and is singular; so are un jean and un short.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pantalon	pantalon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	pahn	pahn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	ta	ta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	LON	LON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	jean	jean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | un pantalon | one pair and un jean and un |  |  |  | of trousers | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | un pantalon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | singular *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | un pantalon *not said here* | un jean and un |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | un pantalon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:5`.

**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): 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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