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title: Leave an accent off in a French test and you lose a mark, just as yo… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Leave an accent off in a French test and you lose a mark, just as you would for writing "frend" instead of "friend" in English. Who acts: you. 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
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# Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 4

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Leave an accent off in a French test and you lose a mark, just as you would for writing "frend" instead of "friend" in English.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** leave off, lose · **To what, where:** accent, French test, mark

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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 (you), 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:4
# text = Leave an accent off in a French test and you lose a mark, just as you would for writing "frend" instead of "friend" in English.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	frend	frend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:appos
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **leave off** | imperative | you *not said here* | a accent |  | a French test |  | in English; writing *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent accent=Theme in test=Location |
| 2 | **lose** | present | you | a mark |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Eventuality |

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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:4`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-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/).

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