--- title: J'ai mal à la tête means "I have a headache"; j'ai mal à + body part… — Avoir: to have · tree and pragmatics description: J'ai mal à la tête means "I have a headache"; j'ai mal à + body part says where it hurts. Who acts: French, body part, part. A sentence of the lesson «Avoir: to have» 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/29-avoir-to-have/15/) [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/) / [Avoir: to have](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/29-avoir-to-have/) / 15 # Avoir: to have, sentence 15 J'ai mal à la tête means "I have a headache"; j'ai mal à + body part says where it hurts. **Who acts:** French, body part, part · **What happens:** mean, have, say, hurt · **To what, where:** headache · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Avoir: to have» 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 (French, body part, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:029-avoir-to-have.lesson:15 # text = J'ai mal à la tête means "I have a headache"; j'ai mal à + body part says where it hurts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 029-avoir-to-have.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 J'ai J'ai X FW Foreign=Yes 2 nsubj _ _ 2 mal mal X FW Foreign=Yes 6 dep _ _ 3 à à X FW Foreign=Yes 2 flat:foreign _ _ 4 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 2 flat:foreign _ _ 5 tête tête X FW Foreign=Yes 2 flat:foreign _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 headache headache NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 j'ai j'ai X FW Foreign=Yes 15 dep _ _ 15 mal mal X FW Foreign=Yes 2 conj _ _ 16 à à X FW Foreign=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 + + SYM SYM _ 16 compound _ _ 18 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | French | a headache | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | body part | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hurt** | present | part | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | 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:029-avoir-to-have.lesson:15`. **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, R7-rel-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: [Avoir: to have, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/29-avoir-to-have/13/) - next →: [Questions and simple sentences, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/29-avoir-to-have/)