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title: The easiest question is a normal sentence with the voice rising at t… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: The easiest question is a normal sentence with the voice rising at the end: Tu as un chien ? Who acts: easiest question, voice. 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 5

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The easiest question is a normal sentence with the voice rising at the end: Tu as un chien ?

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**Who acts:** easiest question, voice · **What happens:** be, rise · **To what, where:** normal sentence, end

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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 (easiest question, voice), 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:5
# text = The easiest question is a normal sentence with the voice rising at the end: Tu as un chien ?
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:aux
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Tu	Tu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	chien	chien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the easiest question | a normal sentence |  |  |  | with the voice | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | the voice *not said here* |  |  |  | at the end |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=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:5`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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