--- title: Then comes Mardi gras, "fat Tuesday", the last day of rich food befo… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style · tree and pragmatics description: Then comes Mardi gras, "fat Tuesday", the last day of rich food before Lent, when French school children often dress up for carnival. Who acts: Mardi gras, French school children. 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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 (Mardi gras, French school children), 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:4 # text = Then comes Mardi gras, "fat Tuesday", the last day of rich food before Lent, when French school children often dress up for carnival. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Mardi Mardi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 gras gras NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 7 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Tuesday Tuesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 before before ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Lent Lent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 21 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod 22 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 dress dress VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 carnival Carnival NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Mardi gras | | | Lent | then; day | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before lent=Location | | 2 | **dress up** | present | French school children | | | | | for carnival; often *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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. 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