--- title: The names: aigu means sharp, grave means low, circonflexe means bent… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics description: The names: aigu means sharp, grave means low, circonflexe means bent around; cédille is "say-DEE-y" and tréma is "tray-MA". Who acts: aigu, grave, circonflexe, cédille. 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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 (aigu, grave, circonflexe, cédille), 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:17 # text = The names: aigu means sharp, grave means low, circonflexe means bent around; cédille is "say-DEE-y" and tréma is "tray-MA". # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 aigu aigu NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 circonflexe circonflexe NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 bent bent VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 xcomp _ _ 15 around around ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 17 cédille cédille NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 20 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 22 DEE DEE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 y y NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 27 tréma tréma X FW Foreign=Yes 32 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 30 tray tray NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 32 MA ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | aigu | | | | | sharp *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | grave | | | | | low *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | circonflexe | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **bent around** *not said to happen* | present | circonflexe *not said here* | | | | | around *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | cédille | DEE y and tray MA | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | tréma | tray MA | | | | | 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:17`. **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 ×2. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/16/) - next →: [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/)