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title: A plural noun takes a plural verb: le cheval est, but les chevaux so… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics
description: A plural noun takes a plural verb: le cheval est, but les chevaux sont. Who acts: plural noun. 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 14

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A plural noun takes a plural verb: le cheval est, but les chevaux sont.

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**Who acts:** plural noun · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** plural verb

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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 (plural noun), 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:14
# text = A plural noun takes a plural verb: le cheval est, but les chevaux sont.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cheval	cheval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	est	est	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	les	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chevaux	chevaux	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **take** | present | a plural noun | a plural verb and le cheval est |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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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