--- title: You say à before a town (à Inverness), en before most feminine count… — My house and my home · tree and pragmatics description: You say à before a town (à Inverness), en before most feminine countries (en Écosse, en France), au before masculine countries (au Canada, au pays de Galles) and aux before plural ones (aux États-Unis). Who acts: You. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:021-my-house-and-my-home.lesson:10 # text = You say à before a town (à Inverness), en before most feminine countries (en Écosse, en France), au before masculine countries (au Canada, au pays de Galles) and aux before plural ones (aux États-Unis). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 021-my-house-and-my-home.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 à à NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 8 à à ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Inverness Inverness PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 13 before before ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 15 feminine feminine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 18 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:desc _ _ 19 Écosse Écosse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:desc _ _ 22 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 26 before before ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 masculine masculine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 30 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 au au ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 pays pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 36 flat:foreign _ _ 36 Galles Galles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 aux aux NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 before before ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 plural plural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 44 aux aux NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 États état NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ _ 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ _ 47 Unis Unis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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* | present | You | à | | | before a town | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent à=Topic | 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:021-my-house-and-my-home.lesson:10`. **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): 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: [My house and my home, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/21-my-house-and-my-home/8/) - next →: [My house and my home, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/21-my-house-and-my-home/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/21-my-house-and-my-home/)