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title: In good French writing, capitals keep their accents: ÉCOLE, À BIENTÔT. — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics
description: In good French writing, capitals keep their accents: ÉCOLE, À BIENTÔT. Who acts: capitals. 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 15

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In good French writing, capitals keep their accents: ÉCOLE, À BIENTÔT.

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**Who acts:** capitals · **What happens:** keep, accent · **To what, where:** accents, good French writing

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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 (capitals), 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:15
# text = In good French writing, capitals keep their accents: ÉCOLE, À BIENTÔT.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ÉCOLE	ÉCOLE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	À	À	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	BIENTÔT	BIENTÔT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **keep** | present | capitals | capitals's accents |  | good French writing |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent accent=Theme in writing=Location |
| 2 | **accent** |  | capitals *= capital* |  |  |  |  |  | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:15`.

**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): no change. **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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