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title: Songs are a clever way to learn: the tune carries the words into you… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics
description: Songs are a clever way to learn: the tune carries the words into your memory, and many songs secretly teach numbers, body parts, clothes or how adjectives agree. Who acts: Songs, tune, many songs, adjectives. A sentence of the lesson «Songs and rhymes» of the french course of Mova's primary school w
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# Songs and rhymes, sentence 1

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Songs are a clever way to learn: the tune carries the words into your memory, and many songs secretly teach numbers, body parts, clothes or how adjectives agree.

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**Who acts:** Songs, tune, many songs, adjectives · **What happens:** be, learn, carry, teach, agree · **To what, where:** clever way, words, memory, numbers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Songs and rhymes» 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 (Songs, tune, many songs, adjectives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:031-songs-and-rhymes.lesson:1
# text = Songs are a clever way to learn: the tune carries the words into your memory, and many songs secretly teach numbers, body parts, clothes or how adjectives agree.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 031-songs-and-rhymes.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 ×1
1	Songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	22	obj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Songs | a clever way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | present | the tune | the words |  | your memory |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | many songs | numbers and body parts |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent number=Recipient clothes=Topic |
| 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | adjectives |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:031-songs-and-rhymes.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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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