--- title: French has no English th sound; th is just t: le thé (tea) is "luh T… — Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r… · tree and pragmatics description: French has no English th sound; th is just t: le thé (tea) is "luh TAY" and le théâtre is "luh tay-ATR". Who acts: French, th, tea, le théâtre. 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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, th, tea, le théâtre), 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:16 # text = French has no English th sound; th is just t: le thé (tea) is "luh TAY" and le théâtre is "luh tay-ATR". # 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): R8-pos-agree ×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 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 4 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 th th NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 th th PRON PRP PronType=Dem 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 t t NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 thé thé NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 flat _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 luh luh INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ _ 21 TAY tay NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 théâtre théâtre NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 28 luh luh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 tay tay NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 31 ATR ATR PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 . . 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 | no English th sound | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | th | t | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | tea | TAY and luh tay | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | le théâtre | luh tay | | | | | 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:16`. **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): 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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