--- title: The silent s wakes up before a vowel and is said as z, so les enfant… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics description: The silent s wakes up before a vowel and is said as z, so les enfants sounds "lay-zahn-FAHN" - a little bridge between the two words. Who acts: silent s, enfants. 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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 (silent s, enfants), 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:3 # text = The silent s wakes up before a vowel and is said as z, so les enfants sounds "lay-zahn-FAHN" - a little bridge between the two words. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 s 's NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wakes wake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 before before ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 vowel vowel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 les le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 enfants enfant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 22 zahn zahn NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 24 FAHN FAHN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 - - PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 30 between between ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wake up** | present | the silent s | | | | before a vowel | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | the silent s *not said here* | | | | | as z | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | | 3 | **sound** | present | le enfants | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | infinitive | le enfants *not said here* | zahn and a little bridge between the two words | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zahn=Result | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Plurals: les, des and silent s, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/2/) - next →: [Plurals: les, des and silent s, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/)