--- title: An accent can also change only the meaning: ou means "or" and où mea… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics description: An accent can also change only the meaning: ou means "or" and où means "where", and they sound exactly the same. Who acts: accent, ou, où, accents. 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 --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 2 An accent can also change only the meaning: ou means "or" and où means "where", and they sound exactly the same. **Who acts:** accent, ou, où, accents · **What happens:** change, mean, sound · **To what, where:** meaning 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 (accent, ou, où, accents), 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:2 # text = An accent can also change only the meaning: ou means "or" and où means "where", and they sound exactly the same. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 ou ou X FW Foreign=Yes 11 nsubj _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 où où X FW Foreign=Yes 17 nsubj _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 conj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 28 . . 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 | **change** | can | a accent | the meaning | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | ou | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | où | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sound** | present | accents *= accent* | | | | | same *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/1/) - next →: [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/)