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title: After nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont and elles sont, the describin… — Être: to be · tree and pragmatics
description: After nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont and elles sont, the describing word is plural: nous sommes contents; if all are girls, contentes. Who acts: describing word, all. A sentence of the lesson «Être: to be» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Être: to be, sentence 10

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After nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont and elles sont, the describing word is plural: nous sommes contents; if all are girls, contentes.

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**Who acts:** describing word, all · **What happens:** describe, be · **To what, where:** girls

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Être: to be» 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 (describing word, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:028-etre-to-be.lesson:10
# text = After nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont and elles sont, the describing word is plural: nous sommes contents; if all are girls, contentes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 028-etre-to-be.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	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	nous	nous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sommes	somme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	vous	vous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	êtes	ête	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ils	il	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	elles	elle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	describing	describe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	nous	nous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	sommes	somme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	compound	_	_
22	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	contentes	contente	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **describe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the describing word |  |  |  | after nous sommes and vous êtes and ils  sont sont and girls and contentes | sommes contents *obl*; plural *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | all | girls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:028-etre-to-be.lesson:10`.

**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/).

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