--- title: The youngest child sits under the table and says who gets each slice… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style · tree and pragmatics description: The youngest child sits under the table and says who gets each slice, so nobody can cheat by choosing the slice with the fève. Who acts: youngest child, nobody. 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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 (youngest child, nobody), 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:11 # text = The youngest child sits under the table and says who gets each slice, so nobody can cheat by choosing the slice with the fève. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 slice slice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 so so SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 cheat cheat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 19 by by SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 choosing choose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 slice slice NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fève fève NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | the youngest child | | | the table | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the youngest child *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **get** | present | | each slice | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slice=Stimulus | | 4 | **cheat** | can | nobody | | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **choose** | gerund | nobody *not said here* | the slice | | | | with the fève | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slice=Theme | 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:11`. **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. 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