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title: Il pleut, il pleut, bergère is a song from 1780: "It's raining, shep… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics
description: Il pleut, il pleut, bergère is a song from 1780: "It's raining, shepherdess, bring in your white sheep" - white sheep is blancs moutons. Who acts: Il bergère, It, white sheep. A sentence of the lesson «Songs and rhymes» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Songs and rhymes, sentence 14

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Il pleut, il pleut, bergère is a song from 1780: "It's raining, shepherdess, bring in your white sheep" - white sheep is blancs moutons.

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**Who acts:** Il bergère, It, white sheep · **What happens:** be, rain, bring · **To what, where:** song, 1780, shepherdess, blancs moutons

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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 (Il bergère, It, white sheep), 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:14
# text = Il pleut, il pleut, bergère is a song from 1780: "It's raining, shepherdess, bring in your white sheep" - white sheep is blancs moutons.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Il	Il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
2	pleut	pleut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	il	il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pleut	pleut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	bergère	bergère	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1780	1780	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	blancs	blancs	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
32	moutons	mouton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present | Il bergère | a song |  | 1780 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rain** *in a quote* | present · progressive | It | shepherdess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | Il bergère *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in your white sheep and blancs moutons | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | white sheep | blancs moutons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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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