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title: Ne becomes n' before a vowel: je n'aime pas, je n'ai pas; ne and pas… — Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas · tree and pragmatics
description: Ne becomes n' before a vowel: je n'aime pas, je n'ai pas; ne and pas go round the verb. Who acts: Ne, je pas. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas, sentence 5

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Ne becomes n' before a vowel: je n'aime pas, je n'ai pas; ne and pas go round the verb.

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**Who acts:** Ne, je pas · **What happens:** become, go · **To what, where:** verb

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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 (Ne, je pas), 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:5
# text = Ne becomes n' before a vowel: je n'aime pas, je n'ai pas; ne and pas go round the verb.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ne	ne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	n	n	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	je	je	ADJ	GW	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	11	amod	_	_
10	n'aime	n'aime	X	RB	_	9	goeswith	_	_
11	pas	pas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	je	je	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
14	n'ai	n'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat	_	_
15	pas	pas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	pas	pas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	round	round	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **become** | present | Ne |  |  |  |  | n a vowel | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | present | je pas and pas  je and ne and pas |  |  | the verb |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round verb=Initial\_Location |

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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: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): R8-pos-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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