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title: Without its cédille, garçon would be read "gar-KON", because c befor… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Without its cédille, garçon would be read "gar-KON", because c before a, o or u says "k". Who acts: c. A sentence of the lesson «Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 10

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Without its cédille, garçon would be read "gar-KON", because c before a, o or u says "k".

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**Who acts:** c · **What happens:** read, say · **To what, where:** garçon, k · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends» 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 (c), 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:10
# text = Without its cédille, garçon would be read "gar-KON", because c before a, o or u says "k".
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cédille	cédille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	garçon	garçon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
10	gar	gar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	KON	kon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	23	mark	_	_
16	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	o	o	NOUN	NN	_	18	conj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
22	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:_
23	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **read** | would · passive |  | garçon |  |  |  | without cédille's cédille | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | c before a | k |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent k=Topic |

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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:003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.lesson:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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