--- title: The accent circonflexe is a little hat (ê, â, î, ô, û); it often sta… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics description: The accent circonflexe is a little hat (ê, â, î, ô, û); it often stands where an s used to be: forêt (forest), hôpital (hospital), fête (feast), île (isle). Who acts: accent circonflexe, circonflexe. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (accent circonflexe, circonflexe), 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:8 # text = The accent circonflexe is a little hat (ê, â, î, ô, û); it often stands where an s used to be: forêt (forest), hôpital (hospital), fête (feast), île (isle). # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 circonflexe circonflexe NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 ê ê NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 â â NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 î î NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 ô ô NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 û û NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:mark 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 30 forêt forêt NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 hôpital hôpital NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:parataxis 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 37 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obl 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 fête fête NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:parataxis 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 42 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 île île NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 46 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 47 isle isle NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:obl 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 49 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the accent circonflexe | a little hat | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stand** | present | circonflexe | | | | | often *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **use** | present · passive | | an | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | infinitive | | forêt and hôpital and fête | | | | | 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:8`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/7/) - next →: [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/)