--- title: The accent aigu (é) leans up to the right and makes e say "ay": le c… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics description: The accent aigu (é) leans up to the right and makes e say "ay": le café is "ka-FAY", l'école (school) is "lay-KOL". Who acts: accent aigu, e, FAY. 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 e --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 5 The accent aigu (é) leans up to the right and makes e say "ay": le café is "ka-FAY", l'école (school) is "lay-KOL". **Who acts:** accent aigu, e, FAY · **What happens:** lean up, make, say, be · **To what, where:** e, ay, FAY, lay KOL · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 aigu, e, FAY), 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:5 # text = The accent aigu (é) leans up to the right and makes e say "ay": le café is "ka-FAY", l'école (school) is "lay-KOL". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 aigu aigu NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 5 é é NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 7 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 xcomp _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 ay ay NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 café café NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 24 ka ka X FW Foreign=Yes 26 discourse _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 FAY fay NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 l'école l'école NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 35 lay lay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:amod 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 KOL KOL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lean up** | present | the accent aigu | | | | | to the right | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | the accent aigu *not said here* | e | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | e *not said here* | ay | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ay=Topic | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | FAY and l'école | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | FAY and l'école | lay KOL | | | | | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/4/) - next →: [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/)