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title: Nouns already ending in s, x or z do not change: le nez, les nez; la… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics
description: Nouns already ending in s, x or z do not change: le nez, les nez; la souris, les souris; le prix, les prix. Who acts: Nouns. A sentence of the lesson «Plurals: les, des and silent s» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Plurals: les, des and silent s, sentence 10

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Nouns already ending in s, x or z do not change: le nez, les nez; la souris, les souris; le prix, les prix.

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**Who acts:** Nouns · **What happens:** end, not change · **To what, where:** s, le

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plurals: les, des and silent s» 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 (Nouns), 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:10
# text = Nouns already ending in s, x or z do not change: le nez, les nez; la souris, les souris; le prix, les prix.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	s	s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
7	x	x	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	5	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	z	z	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	nez	nez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
18	nez	nez	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	la	la	ADV	FW	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	souris	souris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	parataxis	_	_
24	souris	souris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	list	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	prix	prix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	compound	_	_
30	prix	prix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | gerund | Nouns |  |  | s |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | Nouns *not said here* | le  souris |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:026-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s.lesson:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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