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title: L'hôtel de ville is the town hall in bigger towns; in smaller towns… — The town and directions · tree and pragmatics
description: L'hôtel de ville is the town hall in bigger towns; in smaller towns it is called la mairie. Who acts: L'hôtel. 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 9

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L'hôtel de ville is the town hall in bigger towns; in smaller towns it is called la mairie.

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**Who acts:** L'hôtel · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** town hall, bigger towns, baker, smaller towns · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (L'hôtel), 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:9
# text = L'hôtel de ville is the town hall in bigger towns; in smaller towns it is called la mairie.
# 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): no change
1	L'hôtel	L'hôtel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	ville	ville	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
18	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	xcomp	_	_
19	mairie	mairie	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | L'hôtel | the town hall |  | bigger towns |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  | baker |  | smaller towns |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:9`.

**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): no change. **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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