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title: Ne goes before the verb and pas after it: je n'aime pas, il n'est pa… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: Ne goes before the verb and pas after it: je n'aime pas, il n'est pas là. Who acts: Ne. A sentence of the lesson «Questions and simple sentences» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Questions and simple sentences, sentence 10

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Ne goes before the verb and pas after it: je n'aime pas, il n'est pas là.

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**Who acts:** Ne · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** verb

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions and simple sentences» 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 (Ne), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:030-questions-and-simple-sentences.lesson:10
# text = Ne goes before the verb and pas after it: je n'aime pas, il n'est pas là.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 030-questions-and-simple-sentences.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ne	ne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pas	pa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	je	je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
12	n'aime	n'aime	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
13	pas	pa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	il	IL	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
16	n'est	n'	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
17	pas	pa	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
18	là	là	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go** | present | Ne |  |  | the verb  je n'aime pas and pas after heure |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before verb=Location |

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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:030-questions-and-simple-sentences.lesson:10`.

**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): 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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