--- title: French has some sounds English does not have, and learning them is l… — Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r… · tree and pragmatics description: French has some sounds English does not have, and learning them is like learning new moves in a game: strange at first, then easy. Who acts: French, English, learning. A sentence of the lesson «Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u» of the french course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/2-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/2-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u/) / 0 # Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 0 French has some sounds English does not have, and learning them is like learning new moves in a game: strange at first, then easy. **Who acts:** French, English, learning · **What happens:** have, not have, learn, be · **To what, where:** sounds, game · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u» 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 (French, English, learning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:002-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u.lesson:0 # text = French has some sounds English does not have, and learning them is like learning new moves in a game: strange at first, then easy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 002-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 learning learn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 csubj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 like like SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 learning learn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 16 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 moves move NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 21 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 27 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | French | some sounds | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | | 2 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | English | some sounds *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | | 3 | **learn** | gerund | | sounds *= sound* | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 4 | **is** | present | learning | | | a game | | learn *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:002-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u.lesson:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. 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