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title: Le réveillon de Noël is the big Christmas Eve dinner on 24 December;… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style · tree and pragmatics
description: Le réveillon de Noël is the big Christmas Eve dinner on 24 December; some families open presents that night and others on the morning of the 25th. Who acts: Le réveillon, families. A sentence of the lesson «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» of the french course of Mova's primary scho
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# Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style, sentence 5

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Le réveillon de Noël is the big Christmas Eve dinner on 24 December; some families open presents that night and others on the morning of the 25th.

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**Who acts:** Le réveillon, families · **What happens:** be, open · **To what, where:** big Eve dinner, presents

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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 (Le réveillon, families), 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:5
# text = Le réveillon de Noël is the big Christmas Eve dinner on 24 December; some families open presents that night and others on the morning of the 25th.
# 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	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	réveillon	réveillon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	Noël	Noël	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat:foreign	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	25th	25th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Le réveillon | the big Eve dinner |  |  | december |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | present | some families | presents and others |  |  | morning; night |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location present=Theme |

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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): 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.

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

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