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title: Before a vowel sound, le and la lose their vowel: de l'eau (some wat… — Food and drink · tree and pragmatics
description: Before a vowel sound, le and la lose their vowel: de l'eau (some water), l'orange. Who acts: le. A sentence of the lesson «Food and drink» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Food and drink, sentence 10

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Before a vowel sound, le and la lose their vowel: de l'eau (some water), l'orange.

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**Who acts:** le · **What happens:** lose · **To what, where:** vowel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and drink» 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 (le), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:018-food-and-drink.lesson:10
# text = Before a vowel sound, le and la lose their vowel: de l'eau (some water), l'orange.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 018-food-and-drink.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	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	la	la	X	FW	_	6	conj	_	_
9	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	de	de	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	11	appos	_	_
14	l'eau	l'eau	X	NN	_	13	goeswith	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	l'orange	l'orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **lose** | present | le | le's vowel and l'orange |  |  | before a vowel sound |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vowel=Eventuality |

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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:018-food-and-drink.lesson:10`.

**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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