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title: A reason makes your French sound grown-up: "Je déteste les brocolis… — Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas · tree and pragmatics
description: A reason makes your French sound grown-up: "Je déteste les brocolis parce que c'est dégoûtant", I hate broccoli because it's disgusting. Who acts: reason, brocolis, I. A sentence of the lesson «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas, sentence 3

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A reason makes your French sound grown-up: "Je déteste les brocolis parce que c'est dégoûtant", I hate broccoli because it's disgusting.

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**Who acts:** reason, brocolis, I · **What happens:** make, grow up, dégoûtant, hate, be · **To what, where:** French sound, broccoli

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» 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 (reason, brocolis, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:024-likes-and-dislikes.lesson:3
# text = A reason makes your French sound grown-up: "Je déteste les brocolis parce que c'est dégoûtant", I hate broccoli because it's disgusting.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 024-likes-and-dislikes.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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=7:compound
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Je	Je	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	déteste	déteste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
15	brocolis	brocoli	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	parce	parce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	que	que	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	c'est	c'	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	amod	_	_
19	dégoûtant	dégoûtant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
24	broccoli	broccoli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | present | a reason | your French sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset sound=Beneficiary le=Product |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  | your French sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dégoûtant** *in a quote* |  | brocolis |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hate** | present | I | broccoli |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer broccoli=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | present | reason |  |  |  |  | disgusting *property* | tree rules |

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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:024-likes-and-dislikes.lesson:3`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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