--- title: The tréma is two dots (ë, ï); it tells you to say two vowels separat… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics description: The tréma is two dots (ë, ï); it tells you to say two vowels separately: Noël is "no-EL", le maïs (sweetcorn) is "ma-EES". Who acts: tréma, Noël, le maïs. 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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 (tréma, Noël, le maïs), 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:14 # text = The tréma is two dots (ë, ï); it tells you to say two vowels separately: Noël is "no-EL", le maïs (sweetcorn) is "ma-EES". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tréma tréma NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 dots dot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 7 ë ë NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 ï ï NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 vowels vowel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 separately separately ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 Noël Noël PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 EL el NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 maïs maï NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 sweetcorn sweetcorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 36 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 38 EES EES PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 a** | present | the tréma | two dots | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | tréma | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | tréma *not said here* | two vowels | | | | separately *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vowel=Topic | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Noël | no EL and ma EES | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | le maïs | ma EES | | | | | 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:14`. **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 ×2, 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: [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/13/) - next →: [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/)