--- title: qu almost always says "k" in French: quatre (four) is "KATR", qui (w… — Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r… · tree and pragmatics description: qu almost always says "k" in French: quatre (four) is "KATR", qui (who) is "KEE". Who acts: qu, KATR. 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 its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 15 qu almost always says "k" in French: quatre (four) is "KATR", qui (who) is "KEE". **Who acts:** qu, KATR · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** k, French, KATR, KEE · **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 (qu, KATR), 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:15 # text = qu almost always says "k" in French: quatre (four) is "KATR", qui (who) is "KEE". # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 qu qu X FW Foreign=Yes 4 nsubj _ _ 2 almost almost ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 always always ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 k k NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 quatre quatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 appos _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 KATR KATR PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 qui qui X FW Foreign=Yes 17 dep _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 KEE KEE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:appos 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | qu | k and quatre | | French | | always *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent k=Theme in french=Manner | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | KATR | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | KATR | KEE | | | | | 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:15`. **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 ×1, 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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