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title: French joins à and le into au, so you go au parc, but à la piscine a… — The town and directions · tree and pragmatics
description: French joins à and le into au, so you go au parc, but à la piscine and à l'école stay apart. Who acts: French, you. A sentence of the lesson «The town and directions» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The town and directions, sentence 4

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French joins à and le into au, so you go au parc, but à la piscine and à l'école stay apart.

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**Who acts:** French, you · **What happens:** join, go, stay · **To what, where:** au parc

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The town and directions» 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 (French, you), 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:4
# text = French joins à and le into au, so you go au parc, but à la piscine and à l'école stay apart.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	à	à	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	parc	parc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	à	à	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	piscine	piscine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	à	à	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	l'école	l'école	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
23	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | **join** | present | French |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | present | you | au parc |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location parc=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | à la piscine and l'école; apart *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:022-the-town-and-directions.lesson:4`.

**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, 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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