--- title: Picture a French farm: un cheval in the field becomes des chevaux, u… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a French farm: un cheval in the field becomes des chevaux, un oiseau on the roof becomes des oiseaux, and you cannot see un œil but deux yeux. Who acts: you, un cheval. 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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, un cheval), 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:2 # text = Picture a French farm: un cheval in the field becomes des chevaux, un oiseau on the roof becomes des oiseaux, and you cannot see un œil but deux yeux. # 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 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 cheval cheval NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 des de DET DT _ 13 det _ _ 13 chevaux chevaux NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 oiseau oiseau NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 des de DET DT _ 22 det _ _ 22 oiseaux oiseaux NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 29 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 œil œil NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 deux deux NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 yeux yeux NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a French farm | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent farm=Theme | | 2 | **become** | present | un cheval in the field *not said here* | de chevaux and un oiseau on the roof | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **become** | present | un cheval in the field *not said here* | de oiseaux | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **see** | can | you | un œil but deux yeux | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer œil=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Plurals: les, des and silent s, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/1/) - next →: [Plurals: les, des and silent s, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/)