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title: Savez-vous planter les choux ? asks if you know how to plant cabbage… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics
description: Savez-vous planter les choux ? asks if you know how to plant cabbages, using a different body part in each verse: le doigt, le pied, le genou, le coude, le nez. Who acts: Savez, you. A sentence of the lesson «Songs and rhymes» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Songs and rhymes, sentence 13

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Savez-vous planter les choux ? asks if you know how to plant cabbages, using a different body part in each verse: le doigt, le pied, le genou, le coude, le nez.

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**Who acts:** Savez, you · **What happens:** ask, know, plant, use · **To what, where:** cabbages, different body part, verse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Savez, you), 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:13
# text = Savez-vous planter les choux ? asks if you know how to plant cabbages, using a different body part in each verse: le doigt, le pied, le genou, le coude, le nez.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Savez	Savez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	vous	vous	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	planter	planter	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	les	le	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
6	choux	choux	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
8	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	doigt	doigt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	pied	pied	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=30:punct
32	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	genou	genou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	coude	coude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	nez	nez	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Savez |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **plant** | to-infinitive |  | cabbages |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient |
| 4 | **use** | gerund |  | a different body part |  | each verse |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

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