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title: "Some" is du (masculine), de la (feminine), de l' (before a vowel) o… — Food and drink · tree and pragmatics
description: "Some" is du (masculine), de la (feminine), de l' (before a vowel) or des (plural): Je voudrais du pain (I'd like some bread). Who acts: Some, I. 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 6

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"Some" is du (masculine), de la (feminine), de l' (before a vowel) or des (plural): Je voudrais du pain (I'd like some bread).

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**Who acts:** Some, I · **What happens:** be, like · **To what, where:** bread

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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 (Some, I), 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:6
# text = "Some" is du (masculine), de la (feminine), de l' (before a vowel) or des (plural): Je voudrais du pain (I'd like some bread).
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	du	du	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	masculine	masculine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	cc	_	_
11	la	la	NOUN	FW	_	5	conj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	feminine	feminine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	advmod	_	_
17	l	l	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	appos	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Je	Je	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	voudrais	voudrai	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
32	du	du	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	parataxis	_	_
38	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
39	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | Some |  |  |  | before a vowel or des and Je voudrais and du pain | du *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** | would | I | some bread |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bread=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:018-food-and-drink.lesson:6`.

**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): no change. **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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