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description: Strasbourg, in Alsace in the east of France, has one of the oldest Christmas markets in Europe, le marché de Noël, with gingerbread called le pain d'épices. Who acts: Strasbourg, gingerbread. A sentence of the lesson «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» of the french course of Mova's p
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# Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style, sentence 8

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Strasbourg, in Alsace in the east of France, has one of the oldest Christmas markets in Europe, le marché de Noël, with gingerbread called le pain d'épices.

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**Who acts:** Strasbourg, gingerbread · **What happens:** have, call · **To what, where:** one, pain d'épices · **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 (Strasbourg, gingerbread), 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:8
# text = Strasbourg, in Alsace in the east of France, has one of the oldest Christmas markets in Europe, le marché de Noël, with gingerbread called le pain d'épices.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Strasbourg	Strasbourg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Alsace	Alsace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
16	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	markets	market	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	marché	marché	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
24	Noël	Noël	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	d'épices	d'épice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **have** | present | Strasbourg in Alsace in the east of France | one of the oldest Christmas markets in Europe  Noël |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | gingerbread *not said here* | pain d'épices |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent d'épice=Recipient |

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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:8`.

**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): 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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