--- title: sale (no accent) means dirty and sounds like "SAL"; salé means salty… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics description: sale (no accent) means dirty and sounds like "SAL"; salé means salty and sounds like "sa-LAY". Who acts: sale, salé. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/) / 16 # Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 16 sale (no accent) means dirty and sounds like "SAL"; salé means salty and sounds like "sa-LAY". **Who acts:** sale, salé · **What happens:** mean, sound · **To what, where:** dirty 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 (sale, salé), 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:16 # text = sale (no accent) means dirty and sounds like "SAL"; salé means salty and sounds like "sa-LAY". # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 sale sale NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 SAL sal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 salé salé PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 sa sa NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 LAY LAY NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | sale | dirty | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirty=Topic | | 2 | **sound** | present | sale *not said here* | | | | | like SAL | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | salé | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sound** | present | salé *not said here* | | | | | like sa LAY | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:16`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/)