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title: Traditionally French children leave their shoes by the tree (le sapi… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style · tree and pragmatics
description: Traditionally French children leave their shoes by the tree (le sapin) or the fireplace (la cheminée) for le Père Noël to fill with presents (les cadeaux). Who acts: French children. A sentence of the lesson «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» of the french course of Mova's primary sc
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# Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style, sentence 6

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Traditionally French children leave their shoes by the tree (le sapin) or the fireplace (la cheminée) for le Père Noël to fill with presents (les cadeaux).

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**Who acts:** French children · **What happens:** leave, fill · **To what, where:** shoes

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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 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:6
# text = Traditionally French children leave their shoes by the tree (le sapin) or the fireplace (la cheminée) for le Père Noël to fill with presents (les cadeaux).
# 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 ×3
1	Traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
11	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	sapin	sapin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
18	la	la	X	FW	_	19	compound	_	_
19	cheminée	cheminée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Père	Père	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
24	Noël	Noël	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
30	les	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cadeaux	cadeaux	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **leave** | present | French children | children's shoes |  |  |  | by the tree or the fireplace for le Père; traditionally *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme by tree=Location |
| 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive | French children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with presents and le cadeaux | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with present=Instrument |

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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:6`.

**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 ×3. **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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