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title: For musical instruments French says jouer de: je joue du piano, je j… — Hobbies and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: For musical instruments French says jouer de: je joue du piano, je joue de la guitare, je joue du violon. 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 6

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For musical instruments French says jouer de: je joue du piano, je joue de la guitare, je joue du violon.

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**Who acts:** French · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** jouer de · **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:6
# text = For musical instruments French says jouer de: je joue du piano, je joue de la guitare, je joue du violon.
# 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	_	3	case	_	_
2	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	jouer	jouer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	appos	_	_
10	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	amod	_	_
11	du	du	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	amod	_	_
12	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	conj	_	_
15	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	amod	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	dep	_	_
17	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	compound	_	_
18	guitare	guitare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	conj	_	_
21	joue	joue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	amod	_	_
22	du	du	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	obj	_	_
23	violon	violon	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	goeswith	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 de |  |  |  | for musical instruments | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent de=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:6`.

**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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