--- title: Be careful with two pairs: ils ont (they have, with a buzzing z) and… — Avoir: to have · tree and pragmatics description: Be careful with two pairs: ils ont (they have, with a buzzing z) and ils sont (they are, with a hissing s); and a with no accent means "has", while à with an accent means "to" or "at". Who acts: you, pairs, a, à. 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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, pairs, a, à), 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:4 # text = Be careful with two pairs: ils ont (they have, with a buzzing z) and ils sont (they are, with a hissing s); and a with no accent means "has", while à with an accent means "to" or "at". # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Be be AUX VB Mood=Imp 2 cop _ _ 2 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 ils il NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 compound _ _ 8 ont ont NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 buzzing buzzing NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 ils il NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 compound _ _ 20 sont sont NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hissing hissing NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 s 's PART POS Typo=Yes 27 case _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nsubj 36 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 38 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 while while SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 42 à à NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=49:punct 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 50 or or CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 52 at at ADP IN _ 46 conj _ _ 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct 54 . . 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 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | with two pairs ils ont and ils sont; careful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | pairs *= pair* | | | | | with a buzzing z | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | a | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | à with a accent | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/29-avoir-to-have/3/) - next →: [Avoir: to have, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/29-avoir-to-have/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/29-avoir-to-have/)