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title: Il est né, le divin enfant is a traditional French Christmas carol,… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style · tree and pragmatics
description: Il est né, le divin enfant is a traditional French Christmas carol, hundreds of years old: "He is born, the divine child". Who acts: Il est né. A sentence of the lesson «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style, sentence 15

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Il est né, le divin enfant is a traditional French Christmas carol, hundreds of years old: "He is born, the divine child".

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**Who acts:** Il est né · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** traditional French Christmas carol, la · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Il est né), 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:15
# text = Il est né, le divin enfant is a traditional French Christmas carol, hundreds of years old: "He is born, the divine child".
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Il	Il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	est	est	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	né	né	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	divin	divin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	enfant	enfant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
12	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	carol	carol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **be** *speech: other* | present | Il est né and le divin enfant | a traditional French Christmas carol |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | la |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:15`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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