--- title: The French j is soft, like the middle of "measure": je (I) is "zhuh"… — Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r… · tree and pragmatics description: The French j is soft, like the middle of "measure": je (I) is "zhuh", jaune (yellow) is "ZHOHN". Who acts: French j. 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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 (French j), 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:14 # text = The French j is soft, like the middle of "measure": je (I) is "zhuh", jaune (yellow) is "ZHOHN". # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 j J NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 je je NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 conj _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 zhuh zhuh INTJ UH _ 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:discourse 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 jaune jaune NOUN FW Foreign=Yes 5 conj _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 yellow yellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 ZHOHN ZHOHN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the French j | | | | | like the middle of measure; soft *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | yellow ZHOHN | | | | | 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:14`. **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 ×2, 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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