--- title: ille usually says "ee-y": la fille (the girl or daughter) is "la FEE… — Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r… · tree and pragmatics description: ille usually says "ee-y": la fille (the girl or daughter) is "la FEE-y" and la famille is "la fa-MEE-y"; ville (town) and mille (thousand) are odd ones that keep the l sound: "VEEL", "MEEL". Who acts: ille, fille, thousand odd ones. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ille, fille, thousand odd ones), 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:12 # text = ille usually says "ee-y": la fille (the girl or daughter) is "la FEE-y" and la famille is "la fa-MEE-y"; ville (town) and mille (thousand) are odd ones that keep the l sound: "VEEL", "MEEL". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 ille ille NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 y y NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 la la DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fille fille NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 la la DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 FEE fee NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 y y NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 26 la la X GW _ 35 compound _ _ 27 famille famille X NN _ 26 goeswith _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 30 la la DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fa fa NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 33 MEE MEE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 35 y y NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 ville ville NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 39 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 40 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 mille mille NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 44 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 45 thousand thousand NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 47 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 48 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 50 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 51 nsubj _ _ 51 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 acl:relcl _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 l l NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=54:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 54 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 55 : : PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ _ 56 " " PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 57 VEEL VEEL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 " " PUNCT `` _ 61 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=61:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 61 MEEL MEEL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 flat _ _ 62 " " PUNCT '' _ 61 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=57:punct 63 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ille | ee y | | | | usually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent y=Topic | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | la fille | la FEE y and la fa MEE y | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | la fille *not said here* | la fa MEE y | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | | thousand odd ones | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | present | thousand odd ones | the l sound | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | 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:12`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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