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title: La cuisine means the kitchen and also the cooking, which is why Engl… — My house and my home · tree and pragmatics
description: La cuisine means the kitchen and also the cooking, which is why English says "French cuisine". Who acts: La cuisine, cooking, English. 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 8

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La cuisine means the kitchen and also the cooking, which is why English says "French cuisine".

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**Who acts:** La cuisine, cooking, English · **What happens:** mean, be, say · **To what, where:** kitchen, French cuisine · **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 (La cuisine, cooking, English), 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:8
# text = La cuisine means the kitchen and also the cooking, which is why English says "French cuisine".
# 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 ×1
1	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Definite=Def|PronType=Art
2	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	English	English	PROPN	NNP	_	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cuisine	cuisine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | La cuisine | the kitchen and the cooking |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitchen=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | the cooking |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | English | French cuisine |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cuisine=Topic |

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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:8`.

**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 ×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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