--- title: Picture a holiday cottage in France at night: a huge spider runs acr… — Avoir: to have · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a holiday cottage in France at night: a huge spider runs across the floor, you jump on the bed and shout "J'ai peur !" - and your French friend laughs, "Il y a une araignée !", there's a spider! Who acts: you, huge spider, French friend, Il. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, huge spider, French friend, Il), 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:2 # text = Picture a holiday cottage in France at night: a huge spider runs across the floor, you jump on the bed and shout "J'ai peur !" - and your French friend laughs, "Il y a une araignée !", there's a spider! # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 11 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 12 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound 13 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 across across ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 jump jump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 shout shout VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 26 J'ai J'ai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 peur peur NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 28 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 30 - - PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 1 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 38 Il Il PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 y y VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 une une NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 araignée araignée NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 47 expl _ _ 47 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 parataxis _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 50 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a holiday cottage | | France | night | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **run** | present | a huge spider | | | the floor | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory | | 3 | **jump** | present | you | | | the bed | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bed=Trajectory | | 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **laugh** | present | your French friend | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **y** *in a quote* | past | Il | a une araignée | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | present | a spider | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Avoir: to have, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/29-avoir-to-have/1/) - next →: [Avoir: to have, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/29-avoir-to-have/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/29-avoir-to-have/)