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title: When the noun goes plural, everything travelling with it goes plural… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics
description: When the noun goes plural, everything travelling with it goes plural too: les yeux bleus, les chevaux sont dans le champ. Who acts: noun, everything. 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
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# Plurals: les, des and silent s, sentence 4

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When the noun goes plural, everything travelling with it goes plural too: les yeux bleus, les chevaux sont dans le champ.

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**Who acts:** noun, everything · **What happens:** go, travel · **To what, where:** les

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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 (noun, everything), 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:4
# text = When the noun goes plural, everything travelling with it goes plural too: les yeux bleus, les chevaux sont dans le champ.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj
8	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	yeux	yeux	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bleus	bleu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
20	chevaux	chevaux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	dans	dan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	champ	champ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **go** | present | the noun | les and yeux bleus |  |  |  | plural *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with noun | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | everything |  |  |  |  | plural *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×2. **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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