--- title: In many French families the big Christmas meal is on the evening of… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style · tree and pragmatics description: In many French families the big Christmas meal is on the evening of 24 December, le réveillon, and children traditionally leave their shoes by the tree or the fireplace for le Père Noël, not stockings. Who acts: big Christmas meal. 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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 (big Christmas meal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:032-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style.lesson:1 # text = In many French families the big Christmas meal is on the evening of 24 December, le réveillon, and children traditionally leave their shoes by the tree or the fireplace for le Père Noël, not stockings. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 032-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 acl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nmod _ _ 15 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 le Le PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 réveillon réveillon NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 22 traditionally traditionally ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fireplace fireplace NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:desc _ _ 34 Père Père PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 Noël Noël PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 stockings stocking NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 parataxis _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the big Christmas meal | many French families and children *not said here* | | | on the evening and le réveillon | of 24 December | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | present | | children's shoes | | many French families and children | | by the tree or the fireplace for Père le; traditionally *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme in family=Location | 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:032-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style.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): 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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