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title: un chapeau ("sha-POH") is a hat and une casquette ("kass-KET") is a… — Clothes · tree and pragmatics
description: un chapeau ("sha-POH") is a hat and une casquette ("kass-KET") is a cap: -eau words are almost always masculine and -ette words almost always feminine. Who acts: un chapeau, eau words, ette words. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Clothes, sentence 8

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un chapeau ("sha-POH") is a hat and une casquette ("kass-KET") is a cap: -eau words are almost always masculine and -ette words almost always feminine.

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**Who acts:** un chapeau, eau words, ette words · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** hat, cap

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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 chapeau, eau words, ette words), 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:8
# text = un chapeau ("sha-POH") is a hat and une casquette ("kass-KET") is a cap: -eau words are almost always masculine and -ette words almost always feminine.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	chapeau	chapeau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	sha	sha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	POH	poh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	une	une	X	FW	_	15	compound	_	_
15	casquette	casquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	kass	kass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	KET	ket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	eau	eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	33	advmod	_	_
33	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
36	ette	ette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
38	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	40	advmod	_	_
40	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33: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 chapeau | a hat and une casquette and a cap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | un chapeau *not said here* | a cap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | eau words |  |  |  |  | always, masculine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | ette words |  |  |  |  | always *property* | 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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**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): R6-punct-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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