--- title: La poste is the post office and l'église is the church; in many vill… — The town and directions · tree and pragmatics description: La poste is the post office and l'église is the church; in many villages they stand round the main square with the mairie and the bakery. Who acts: La poste, l'église, villages. 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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 (La poste, l'église, villages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:022-the-town-and-directions.lesson:17 # text = La poste is the post office and l'église is the church; in many villages they stand round the main square with the mairie and the bakery. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 022-the-town-and-directions.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 La la X FW _ 2 flat:foreign _ _ 2 poste poste X FW _ 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 l'église l'église NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 18 round round ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 mairie mairie NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bakery bakery NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | La poste | the post office and the church | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | l'église | the church | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stand** | present | villages *= village* | | | many villages | | round the main square; with the mairie and the bakery | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in village=Location | 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:022-the-town-and-directions.lesson:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [The town and directions, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/16/) - next →: [The town and directions, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/)