--- title: Words ending in -eau and -eu usually add x, not s: des gâteaux, des… — Plurals: les, des and silent s · tree and pragmatics description: Words ending in -eau and -eu usually add x, not s: des gâteaux, des bateaux, des oiseaux, des jeux. Who acts: Words. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Plurals: les, des and silent s](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/) / 8 # Plurals: les, des and silent s, sentence 8 Words ending in -eau and -eu usually add x, not s: des gâteaux, des bateaux, des oiseaux, des jeux. **Who acts:** Words · **What happens:** end, add · **To what, where:** eau, x 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 (Words), 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:8 # text = Words ending in -eau and -eu usually add x, not s: des gâteaux, des bateaux, des oiseaux, des jeux. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 2 ending end VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 eau eau NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 eu eu NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 x x NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:ExtPos=ADP 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advcl _ _ 14 s 's PART POS Typo=Yes 13 case _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 des de X FW Foreign=Yes 10 conj _ _ 17 gâteaux gâteaux NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 bateaux bateaux NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 appos _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 oiseaux oiseaux NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 des des NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 jeux jeux NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | gerund | Words *not said here* | | | eau and eu | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Words | x | | | | usually *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent x=Patient | 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:8`. **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): R8-pos-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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/7/) - next →: [Plurals: les, des and silent s, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/)