--- title: In France church bells are silent before Easter; children are told l… — 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days · tree and pragmatics description: In France church bells are silent before Easter; children are told les cloches de Pâques fly to Rome and bring back chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday. Who acts: France church bells, les cloches. 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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 (France church bells, les cloches), 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:10 # text = In France church bells are silent before Easter; children are told les cloches de Pâques fly to Rome and bring back chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 7 before before ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Easter Easter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 les le NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 compound _ _ 14 cloches cloche NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 15 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 14 conj _ _ 16 Pâques pâque NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 back back ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 chocolate chocolate NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 Easter Easter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | France church bells | | | | before Easter | silent *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | children | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **fly** | infinitive | les cloches | | Rome | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to rome=Result | | 4 | **bring back** | infinitive | les cloches *not said here* | chocolate eggs | | | sunday | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | 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:033-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days.lesson:10`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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