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title: For sports and games French says jouer à: je joue au football, je jo… — Hobbies and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: For sports and games French says jouer à: je joue au football, je joue au tennis, je joue aux cartes. Who acts: French. A sentence of the lesson «Hobbies and sport» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hobbies and sport, sentence 5

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For sports and games French says jouer à: je joue au football, je joue au tennis, je joue aux cartes.

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**Who acts:** French · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** jouer à · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (French), 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:5
# text = For sports and games French says jouer à: je joue au football, je joue au tennis, je joue aux cartes.
# 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): no change
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	jouer	jou	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
8	à	à	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	appos	_	_
11	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
12	au	au	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
13	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	dep	_	_
16	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat:foreign	_	_
17	au	au	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat:foreign	_	_
18	tennis	tennis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	dep	_	_
21	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	_
22	aux	aux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	flat:foreign	_	_
23	cartes	carte	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | French | jouer à and joue au tennis and joue aux cartes |  |  |  | for sports and games | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent à=Topic |

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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:023-hobbies-and-sport.lesson:5`.

**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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