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title: The little hat ê often marks a lost s from long ago, so forêt was on… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics
description: The little hat ê often marks a lost s from long ago, so forêt was once "forest", and fête was once "feste" (a feast). Who acts: little hat ê, forêt, fête. 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 pragmat
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# Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 3

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The little hat ê often marks a lost s from long ago, so forêt was once "forest", and fête was once "feste" (a feast).

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**Who acts:** little hat ê, forêt, fête · **What happens:** mark, be · **To what, where:** lost, forest, feste

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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 (little hat ê, forêt, fête), 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:3
# text = The little hat ê often marks a lost s from long ago, so forêt was once "forest", and fête was once "feste" (a feast).
# 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 ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ê	ê	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	marks	mark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lost	lost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	s	's	PART	POS	Typo=Yes	8	case	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	8	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	forêt	forêt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	fête	fête	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	feste	feste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **mark** | present | the little hat ê | a lost |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | forêt | forest |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | fête | feste |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |

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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:3`.

**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 ×3. **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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