--- title: The cédille is a little tail under c (ç); it makes c say "s" before… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics description: The cédille is a little tail under c (ç); it makes c say "s" before a, o or u: le garçon (boy) is "gar-SON", ça (that) is "SA". Who acts: cédille, c, u, ça. 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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 (cédille, c, u, ça), 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:9 # text = The cédille is a little tail under c (ç); it makes c say "s" before a, o or u: le garçon (boy) is "gar-SON", ça (that) is "SA". # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cédille cédille NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 under under ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 c c NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 ç ç NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 15 c c NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 s s NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 before before ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 23 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 36 mark _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 25 u u NOUN NN _ 36 nsubj _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 garçon garçon NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 30 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 34 gar gar NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 36 SON son NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 ça ça PRON PRP Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 nsubj _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct 41 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 appos _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 SA SA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 cédille | a little tail | | c | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | cédille | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | c | s | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent s=Topic | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | u | | | | before a gar SON | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | ça | SA | | | | | 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:9`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/8/) - next →: [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/)