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title: Whoever finds la fève wears a paper crown, la couronne, and is king… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoever finds la fève wears a paper crown, la couronne, and is king or queen for the day; you must eat slowly so you don't swallow it. Who acts: Whoever, you. A sentence of the lesson «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style, sentence 10

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Whoever finds la fève wears a paper crown, la couronne, and is king or queen for the day; you must eat slowly so you don't swallow it.

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**Who acts:** Whoever, you · **What happens:** find, wear, be, eat, not swallow · **To what, where:** fève, paper crown, king, crown

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» 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 (Whoever, you), 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:10
# text = Whoever finds la fève wears a paper crown, la couronne, and is king or queen for the day; you must eat slowly so you don't swallow it.
# 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): no change
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fève	fève	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	la	la	X	FW	_	11	compound	_	_
11	couronne	couronne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **find** | present | Whoever | la fève |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fève=Topic |
| 2 | **wear** | present | Whoever *not said here* | a paper crown |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Whoever *not said here* | king or queen |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | must | you |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **swallow** | present · do-support | you | crown |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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**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:10`.

**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): no change. **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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