--- title: So you say je joue au football, but je joue du piano, and je fais du… — Hobbies and sport · tree and pragmatics description: So you say je joue au football, but je joue du piano, and je fais du vélo - a bit like how English says "play football" but "go cycling". Who acts: you, je, English. 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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 (you, je, English), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:023-hobbies-and-sport.lesson:1 # text = So you say je joue au football, but je joue du piano, and je fais du vélo - a bit like how English says "play football" but "go cycling". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 023-hobbies-and-sport.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 je je X FW _ 3 ccomp _ _ 5 joue joue X FW _ 7 amod _ _ 6 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 je je X FW _ 13 amod _ _ 11 joue joue X FW _ 13 amod _ _ 12 du du X FW _ 13 amod _ _ 13 piano piano NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 je je X FW _ 17 nsubj _ _ 17 fais fai VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 du du X GW _ 17 obj _ _ 19 vélo vélo X AFX _ 18 goeswith _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 like like SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 English English PROPN NNP _ 26 nsubj _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 28 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:ccomp 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 cycling cycling NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fai** | present | je | du | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | English | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive | | football | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:023-hobbies-and-sport.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/18/) - next →: [Hobbies and sport, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/)