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title: des ciseaux ("see-ZOH") are scissors and are plural, as in English;… — In the classroom · tree and pragmatics
description: des ciseaux ("see-ZOH") are scissors and are plural, as in English; la colle is glue and une règle is a ruler. Who acts: ciseaux, la glue. A sentence of the lesson «In the classroom» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In the classroom, sentence 15

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des ciseaux ("see-ZOH") are scissors and are plural, as in English; la colle is glue and une règle is a ruler.

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**Who acts:** ciseaux, la glue · **What happens:** see, be · **To what, where:** scissors, la glue, ruler · **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 (ciseaux, la glue), 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:15
# text = des ciseaux ("see-ZOH") are scissors and are plural, as in English; la colle is glue and une règle is a ruler.
# 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): no change
1	des	des	X	FW	_	2	det	_	_
2	ciseaux	ciseaux	X	FW	_	11	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ZOH	ZOH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	la	la	X	GW	_	23	compound	_	_
21	colle	colle	X	NN	_	20	goeswith	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	une	une	X	FW	_	26	compound	_	_
26	règle	règle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | des ciseaux | scissors and a ruler |  |  |  | as English | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | des ciseaux *not said here* |  |  |  |  | plural *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | la glue and une règle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | la glue and une règle | a ruler |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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): no change. **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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