--- title: Watch the traps: un crayon is a pencil, not a wax crayon, une gomme… — In the classroom · tree and pragmatics description: Watch the traps: un crayon is a pencil, not a wax crayon, une gomme is a rubber, not chewing gum, and une trousse is a pencil case, not trousers. Who acts: you, un crayon, une trousse. 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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 (you, un crayon, une trousse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:020-in-the-classroom.lesson:1 # text = Watch the traps: un crayon is a pencil, not a wax crayon, une gomme is a rubber, not chewing gum, and une trousse is a pencil case, not trousers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 020-in-the-classroom.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 crayon crayon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 crayon crayon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 une une NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 gomme gomme NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 chewing chew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 24 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 une une X FW _ 28 compound _ _ 28 trousse trousse NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 trousers trousers NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the traps | | | | trousers *obl* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | un crayon | a pencil and a wax crayon and une gomme | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a rubber and gum | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **chew** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | une trousse | a pencil case | | | | | 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:020-in-the-classroom.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [In the classroom, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/0/) - next →: [In the classroom, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/)