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title: Floors are counted as in Britain: the floor at street level is le re… — My house and my home · tree and pragmatics
description: Floors are counted as in Britain: the floor at street level is le rez-de-chaussée and le premier étage is one floor up, so an American's "first floor" is a French ground floor. Who acts: floor, premier étage, first floor. A sentence of the lesson «My house and my home» of the french course of Mova's
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# My house and my home, sentence 3

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Floors are counted as in Britain: the floor at street level is le rez-de-chaussée and le premier étage is one floor up, so an American's "first floor" is a French ground floor.

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**Who acts:** floor, premier étage, first floor · **What happens:** count, be · **To what, where:** Floors, rez de chaussée, one floor, French ground floor

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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 (floor, premier étage, first floor), 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:3
# text = Floors are counted as in Britain: the floor at street level is le rez-de-chaussée and le premier étage is one floor up, so an American's "first floor" is a French ground floor.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
14	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	rez	rez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	chaussée	chaussée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	premier	premier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	étage	étage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	list	_	_
27	up	up	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det
31	American	American	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
34	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	amod	_	_
35	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **count** | present · passive |  | Floors |  |  |  | as Britain | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as britain=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the floor at street level | rez de chaussée and le and a French ground floor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | premier étage | one floor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a American's first floor | a French ground floor |  |  |  |  | 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:3`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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