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title: J'habite dans une maison means "I live in a house"; maison is femini… — My house and my home · tree and pragmatics
description: J'habite dans une maison means "I live in a house"; maison is feminine (une maison) and appartement is masculine (un appartement, a flat). Who acts: J'habite dans une maison, girl, maison, appartement. A sentence of the lesson «My house and my home» of the french course of Mova's primary school with
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# My house and my home, sentence 5

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J'habite dans une maison means "I live in a house"; maison is feminine (une maison) and appartement is masculine (un appartement, a flat).

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**Who acts:** J'habite dans une maison, girl, maison, appartement · **What happens:** mean, live, be · **To what, where:** house · **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 (J'habite dans une maison, girl, maison, appartement), 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:5
# text = J'habite dans une maison means "I live in a house"; maison is feminine (une maison) and appartement is masculine (un appartement, a flat).
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	J'habite	j'habite	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
2	dans	dans	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
3	une	une	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
4	maison	maison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	maison	maison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
18	une	une	X	FW	_	19	compound	_	_
19	maison	maison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	appartement	appartement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
26	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	flat:foreign	_	_
27	appartement	appartement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	flat	flat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **mean** | present | J'habite dans une maison |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | present | a girl *= girl* |  |  | a house |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | maison |  |  |  |  | feminine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | appartement |  |  |  |  | masculine *property* | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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