--- title: Nasal vowels send the air up through your nose: hold your nose light… — Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r… · tree and pragmatics description: Nasal vowels send the air up through your nose: hold your nose lightly, say bon, and if you feel a buzz, you have it; the n itself is not really said. Who acts: Nasal vowels, you. A sentence of the lesson «Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u» of the french course of Mova's primary --- [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/1/) [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/) / 1 # Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 1 Nasal vowels send the air up through your nose: hold your nose lightly, say bon, and if you feel a buzz, you have it; the n itself is not really said. **Who acts:** Nasal vowels, you · **What happens:** send up, hold, say, feel, have, not say · **To what, where:** air, nose, bon, buzz, n · **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 (Nasal vowels, you), 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:1 # text = Nasal vowels send the air up through your nose: hold your nose lightly, say bon, and if you feel a buzz, you have it; the n itself is not really said. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Nasal nasal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 vowels vowel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 send send VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 lightly lightly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 bon bon NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 n n NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 31 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:appos 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 really really ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send up** | present | Nasal vowels | the air | | your nose | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | infinitive | | your nose | | | | lightly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | bon | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bon=Topic | | 4 | **feel** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a buzz | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buzz=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | you | buzz | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | the n n | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | 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:1`. **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. 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