--- title: You hear the plural in the little word in front instead: le chat sou… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics description: You hear the plural in the little word in front instead: le chat sounds "luh SHA", les chats sounds "lay SHA", and des chats, "day SHA", means "some cats". Who acts: You, le chat, SHA, chats. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, le chat, SHA, chats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:026-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s.lesson:1 # text = You hear the plural in the little word in front instead: le chat sounds "luh SHA", les chats sounds "lay SHA", and des chats, "day SHA", means "some cats". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 026-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 plural plural NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 instead instead ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 le Le PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound 15 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 luh luh INTJ UH _ 18 discourse _ _ 18 SHA SHA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 les le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 chats chat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:parataxis 23 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 SHA SHA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 des des DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 chats chat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 35 SHA SHA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 40 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 41 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | You | the plural | | | | instead *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer plural=Stimulus | | 2 | **sound** | present | le chat | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **sound** | present | SHA | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | infinitive | SHA *not said here* | SHA | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sha=Result | | 5 | **mean** | present | des chats and day | some cats | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | 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:026-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. 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