--- title: French letters sometimes wear little hats, lines and tails, called a… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics description: French letters sometimes wear little hats, lines and tails, called accents, and they are part of the spelling, just like the dot on an i. Who acts: French letters, letters. 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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 (French letters, letters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.lesson:0 # text = French letters sometimes wear little hats, lines and tails, called accents, and they are part of the spelling, just like the dot on an i. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hats hat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 just just ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 29 i. i. X FW Foreign=Yes 26 dep _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | present | French letters | little hats and lines and tails and called accents | | | | like the dot; sometimes *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | letters *= letter* | part | | | | of the spelling | tree rules | 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:003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.lesson:0`. **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 ×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: [Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/2-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u/18/) - next →: [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/)