--- title: La pétanque is a French game of throwing metal balls close to a smal… — Hobbies and sport · tree and pragmatics description: La pétanque is a French game of throwing metal balls close to a small wooden ball called le cochonnet (the piglet); children play it too. Who acts: La French game, small wooden ball, children. A sentence of the lesson «Hobbies and sport» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Hobbies and sport](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/) / 10 # Hobbies and sport, sentence 10 La pétanque is a French game of throwing metal balls close to a small wooden ball called le cochonnet (the piglet); children play it too. **Who acts:** La French game, small wooden ball, children · **What happens:** be, throw, call, play · **To what, where:** La French game, metal balls, le cochonnet, verb · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Hobbies and sport» 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 French game, small wooden ball, children), 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:10 # text = La pétanque is a French game of throwing metal balls close to a small wooden ball called le cochonnet (the piglet); children play it too. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 La la X GW _ 6 compound _ _ 2 pétanque pétanque X NN _ 1 goeswith _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 throwing throw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod 9 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 cochonnet cochonnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 piglet piglet NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 too too ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 . . 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 | | a La French game | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **throw** | gerund | a La French game *not said here* | metal balls | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 3 | **call** | participle | a small wooden ball *not said here* | le cochonnet | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **play** | present | children | verb | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:10`. **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 ×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: [Hobbies and sport, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/8/) - next →: [Hobbies and sport, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/)