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title: On 2 February, la Chandeleur, French kitchens fill with crêpes, and… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style · tree and pragmatics
description: On 2 February, la Chandeleur, French kitchens fill with crêpes, and some people flip them holding a coin in the other hand for luck all year. Who acts: French kitchens, people. A sentence of the lesson «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» of the french course of Mova's primary school w
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# Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style, sentence 3

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On 2 February, la Chandeleur, French kitchens fill with crêpes, and some people flip them holding a coin in the other hand for luck all year.

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**Who acts:** French kitchens, people · **What happens:** fill, flip, hold · **To what, where:** kitchens, coin, other hand

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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 (French kitchens, people), 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:3
# text = On 2 February, la Chandeleur, French kitchens fill with crêpes, and some people flip them holding a coin in the other hand for luck all year.
# 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
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	la	la	ADV	FW	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	Chandeleur	Chandeleur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kitchens	kitchen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	crêpes	crêpe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	flip	flip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **fill** | present | French kitchens |  |  |  | february | with crêpes | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with crêpe=Instrument |
| 2 | **flip** | present | some people | kitchens *= kitchen* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | some people *not said here* | a coin |  | the other hand |  | for luck  all year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coin=Theme in hand=Location |

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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:3`.

**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. **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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