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title: ain, in and ein make another nasal sound, a bit like "an" in "cat" s… — Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r… · tree and pragmatics
description: ain, in and ein make another nasal sound, a bit like "an" in "cat" sent up the nose: le pain (bread), le vin (wine), le lapin (rabbit), la main (hand). Who acts: ain, cat. A sentence of the lesson «Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u» of the french course of Mova's primary school w
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# Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 8

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ain, in and ein make another nasal sound, a bit like "an" in "cat" sent up the nose: le pain (bread), le vin (wine), le lapin (rabbit), la main (hand).

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**Who acts:** ain, cat · **What happens:** make, send up · **To what, where:** nasal sound, nose

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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 (ain, cat), 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:8
# text = ain, in and ein make another nasal sound, a bit like "an" in "cat" sent up the nose: le pain (bread), le vin (wine), le lapin (rabbit), la main (hand).
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	ain	ain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ein	ein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	nasal	nasal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
29	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	vin	vin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
35	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	lapin	lapin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
41	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	la	la	X	FW	_	45	det	_	_
45	main	main	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
46	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
47	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
48	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | infinitive | ain | another nasal sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
| 2 | **send up** | participle | a cat *not said here* | the nose |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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, 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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