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title: Young children in France call their primary teacher la maîtresse (a… — In the classroom · tree and pragmatics
description: Young children in France call their primary teacher la maîtresse (a woman) or le maître (a man); older pupils say madame or monsieur. Who acts: Young children, older pupils. A sentence of the lesson «In the classroom» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# In the classroom, sentence 11

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Young children in France call their primary teacher la maîtresse (a woman) or le maître (a man); older pupils say madame or monsieur.

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**Who acts:** Young children, older pupils · **What happens:** call, say · **To what, where:** primary teacher, madame · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the classroom» 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 (Young children, older pupils), 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:11
# text = Young children in France call their primary teacher la maîtresse (a woman) or le maître (a man); older pupils say madame or monsieur.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	maîtresse	maîtresse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
16	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	maître	maître	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	madame	madame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
28	monsieur	monsieur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Young children in France |  | children's primary teacher |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | older pupils | madame or monsieur |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent madame=Topic |

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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:020-in-the-classroom.lesson:11`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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