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title: Je suis une fille and je suis un garçon: être is followed by un or u… — Être: to be · tree and pragmatics
description: Je suis une fille and je suis un garçon: être is followed by un or une matching the noun. Who acts: Je, un, une. 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 every clause.
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# Être: to be, sentence 7

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Je suis une fille and je suis un garçon: être is followed by un or une matching the noun.

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**Who acts:** Je, un, une · **What happens:** être, je, follow, match · **To what, where:** une fille, suis un, être, noun

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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 (Je, un, une), 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:7
# text = Je suis une fille and je suis un garçon: être is followed by un or une matching the noun.
# 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): no change
1	Je	Je	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suis	être	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
3	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fille	fille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	je	je	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	suis	suis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	garçon	garçon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	être	être	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	matching	match	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **être** | present | Je | une fille |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **je** | infinitive | Je *not said here* | suis un |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | present · passive | un or une | être |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **match** | gerund | une *not said here* | the noun |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noun=Patient |

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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:7`.

**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/).

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