--- title: Picture a beach in Brittany: you point at a crab and ask "Qu'est-ce… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a beach in Brittany: you point at a crab and ask "Qu'est-ce que c'est ?", a French kid says "C'est un crabe !", and then "Tu as quel âge ?" - "J'ai dix ans, et toi ?" Who acts: you, French kid. 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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 (you, French kid), 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:3 # text = Picture a beach in Brittany: you point at a crab and ask "Qu'est-ce que c'est ?", a French kid says "C'est un crabe !", and then "Tu as quel âge ?" - "J'ai dix ans, et toi ?" # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Brittany Brittany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 point point VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 Qu'est Qu'est PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ce ce NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 que que NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 c'est c'est PRON PRP _ 13 parataxis _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 28 C'est C'est PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 un un DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 crabe crabe X FW Foreign=Yes 26 ccomp _ _ 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Tu Tu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 quel quel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 âge âge NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 43 - - PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 45 J'ai J'ai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 46 dix dix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 flat _ _ 47 ans an NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=49:punct 49 et et CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 toi toi X FW Foreign=Yes 47 conj _ _ 51 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: other - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=other | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a beach | | Brittany | | Tu J'ai ans *obl* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent beach=Theme | | 2 | **point** | present | you | | | | | at a crab | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a French kid | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:030-questions-and-simple-sentences.lesson:3`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Questions and simple sentences, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/2/) - next →: [Questions and simple sentences, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/)