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title: Picture early January in a French classroom: a round, flat, golden c… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture early January in a French classroom: a round, flat, golden cake is cut, the youngest child hides under the table and calls out who gets each slice, and somebody bites into a tiny hidden figure - la fève - and is crowned king for the day. Who acts: youngest child, somebody. A sentence of the 
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# Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style, sentence 2

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Picture early January in a French classroom: a round, flat, golden cake is cut, the youngest child hides under the table and calls out who gets each slice, and somebody bites into a tiny hidden figure - la fève - and is crowned king for the day.

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**Who acts:** youngest child, somebody · **What happens:** cut, hide, call out, get, bite, crown · **To what, where:** round flat golden cake, table, slice, tiny hidden figure, king · **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 (youngest child, somebody), 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:2
# text = Picture early January in a French classroom: a round, flat, golden cake is cut, the youngest child hides under the table and calls out who gets each slice, and somebody bites into a tiny hidden figure - la fève - and is crowned king for the day.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
10	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
23	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl:relcl
31	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	36	nsubj	_	_
36	bites	bite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
43	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	41	appos	_	_
44	fève	fève	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	43	flat:foreign	_	_
45	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
49	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	xcomp	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **cut** | present · passive |  | a round flat golden cake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **hide** | present | the youngest child |  |  | the table |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | present | the youngest child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **get** | present |  | each slice |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slice=Stimulus |
| 5 | **bite** | present | somebody |  |  |  |  | into a tiny hidden figure *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into figure=Result |
| 6 | **crown** | present · passive | somebody *not said here* | king |  |  | day |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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**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, R7-rel-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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