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title: After pas, des becomes de: J'ai des bonbons, but Je n'ai pas de bonb… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics
description: After pas, des becomes de: J'ai des bonbons, but Je n'ai pas de bonbons. Who acts: des. 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 15

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After pas, des becomes de: J'ai des bonbons, but Je n'ai pas de bonbons.

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**Who acts:** des · **What happens:** become

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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 (des), 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:15
# text = After pas, des becomes de: J'ai des bonbons, but Je n'ai pas de bonbons.
# 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	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	pas	pa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	xcomp	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	J'ai	J'ai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bonbons	bonbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	Je	Je	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	n'ai	n'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	_
15	pas	pa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bonbons	bonbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **become** | present | des |  |  |  | after pas |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:15`.

**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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