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title: une gomme ("GOMM") is a rubber or eraser; chewing gum is un chewing-… — In the classroom · tree and pragmatics
description: une gomme ("GOMM") is a rubber or eraser; chewing gum is un chewing-gum. Who acts: une gomme, chewing, un. 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 5

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une gomme ("GOMM") is a rubber or eraser; chewing gum is un chewing-gum.

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**Who acts:** une gomme, chewing, un · **What happens:** be, chew · **To what, where:** rubber, gum, un

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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 (une gomme, chewing, un), 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:5
# text = une gomme ("GOMM") is a rubber or eraser; chewing gum is un chewing-gum.
# 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	une	une	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	gomme	gomme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	GOMM	GOMM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	eraser	eraser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
15	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present | une gomme | a rubber or eraser and un |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chew** | gerund |  | gum |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | chewing | un |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **chew** | gerund | un *not said here* | gum |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=Patient |

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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:5`.

**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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