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title: The accent grave (è) leans down to the right and makes e say "eh", a… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics
description: The accent grave (è) leans down to the right and makes e say "eh", as in "bed": la mère (mother) is "MAIR". Who acts: accent grave, e, la. 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 cla
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# Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 6

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The accent grave (è) leans down to the right and makes e say "eh", as in "bed": la mère (mother) is "MAIR".

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**Who acts:** accent grave, e, la · **What happens:** lean down, make, say, be · **To what, where:** eh, MAIR, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (accent grave, e, la), 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:6
# text = The accent grave (è) leans down to the right and makes e say "eh", as in "bed": la mère (mother) is "MAIR".
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	è	è	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	down	down	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	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
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	15	nsubj	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
26	la	la	X	GW	_	33	nsubj	_	_
27	mère	mère	X	GW	_	26	flat	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	MAIR	mair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **lean down** | present | the accent grave |  |  |  |  | to the right; down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | the accent grave *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | e | eh |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent eh=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | la | MAIR |  | bed |  |  | 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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**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, R8-pos-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/).

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