--- title: Saying Je ne comprends pas (I don't understand) is smart, not silly:… — In the classroom · tree and pragmatics description: Saying Je ne comprends pas (I don't understand) is smart, not silly: every language learner needs it, together with Comment dit-on... en français ? (How do you say... in French?). Who acts: Je, I, Saying, language learner. 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(How do you say... in French?). **Who acts:** Je, I, Saying, language learner, you · **What happens:** say, comprend, not understand, be, not be, need · **To what, where:** main, French · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Je, I, Saying, language learner), 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:4 # text = Saying Je ne comprends pas (I don't understand) is smart, not silly: every language learner needs it, together with Comment dit-on... en français ? (How do you say... in French?). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 2 Je Je PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 ne ne PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 comprends comprend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 5 pas pas ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 19 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 learner learner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 together together ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 Comment comment NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 dit dit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 ... ... PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 31 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 français français PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 35 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 36 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ _ 39 ... ... PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 44 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **comprend** | present | Je | | | | | pas *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | Saying | | | | | smart *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **be** | | Saying *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **need** | present | every language learner | main | | | | with Comment dit and en | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | you | | | French | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in french=Manner | 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:4`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [In the classroom, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/3/) - next →: [In the classroom, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/)