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title: an, en, am and em usually make one nasal sound, "ahn": la France, ma… — Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r… · tree and pragmatics
description: an, en, am and em usually make one nasal sound, "ahn": la France, maman (mum), un enfant (a child). Who acts: en. 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
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# Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 7

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an, en, am and em usually make one nasal sound, "ahn": la France, maman (mum), un enfant (a child).

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**Who acts:** en · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** one nasal sound

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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 (en), 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:7
# text = an, en, am and em usually make one nasal sound, "ahn": la France, maman (mum), un enfant (a child).
# 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	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	am	am	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	em	em	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	nasal	nasal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	ahn	ahn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	la	la	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	maman	maman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	enfant	enfant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a en and am and em | one nasal sound |  |  |  | la *obl*; usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |

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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.

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**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:7`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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