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title: You say ma chambre, not mon chambre, because mon and ma follow the g… — My house and my home · tree and pragmatics
description: You say ma chambre, not mon chambre, because mon and ma follow the gender of the word, not of the person speaking. Who acts: You, mon, person. A sentence of the lesson «My house and my home» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# My house and my home, sentence 16

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You say ma chambre, not mon chambre, because mon and ma follow the gender of the word, not of the person speaking.

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**Who acts:** You, mon, person · **What happens:** say, follow, speaking · **To what, where:** ma chambre, gender · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «My house and my home» 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 (You, mon, person), 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:16
# text = You say ma chambre, not mon chambre, because mon and ma follow the gender of the word, not of the person speaking.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
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	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	chambre	chambre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chambre	chambre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gender	gender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
25	speaking	speaking	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | You | ma chambre and mon chambre |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chambre=Topic |
| 2 | **follow** | present | mon and ma | the gender of the word of the person |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gender=Theme |
| 3 | **speaking** | gerund | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:021-my-house-and-my-home.lesson:16`.

**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/).

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