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title: The biggest is France's national day, which English speakers often c… — 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days · tree and pragmatics
description: The biggest is France's national day, which English speakers often call Bastille Day but French people call le 14 Juillet or la fête nationale: a parade in Paris in the morning, fireworks at night and dances at the fire station. Who acts: biggest, English speakers. A sentence of the lesson «14 juill
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# 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days, sentence 1

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The biggest is France's national day, which English speakers often call Bastille Day but French people call le 14 Juillet or la fête nationale: a parade in Paris in the morning, fireworks at night and dances at the fire station.

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**Who acts:** biggest, English speakers · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** national day, 14 Juillet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days» 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 (biggest, English speakers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:033-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days.lesson:1
# text = The biggest is France's national day, which English speakers often call Bastille Day but French people call le 14 Juillet or la fête nationale: a parade in Paris in the morning, fireworks at night and dances at the fire station.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 033-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
10	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Bastille	Bastille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
19	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
20	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	Juillet	juillet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fête	fête	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	nationale	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	parade	parade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | the biggest | France's national day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | present | English speakers but French people | France's national day |  |  |  | often *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme day=Result |
| 3 | **call** | present | the biggest *not said here* | le 14 Juillet or la fête |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent juillet=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:033-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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