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title: On 1 May people give little bunches of lily of the valley, le muguet… — 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days · tree and pragmatics
description: On 1 May people give little bunches of lily of the valley, le muguet, for good luck; 1 May is also a public holiday, la fête du Travail. Who acts: people, 1 May. A sentence of the lesson «14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days, sentence 12

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On 1 May people give little bunches of lily of the valley, le muguet, for good luck; 1 May is also a public holiday, la fête du Travail.

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**Who acts:** people, 1 May · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** little bunches, public holiday

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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 (people, 1 May), 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:12
# text = On 1 May people give little bunches of lily of the valley, le muguet, for good luck; 1 May is also a public holiday, la fête du Travail.
# 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): no change
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bunches	bunch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
15	muguet	muguet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	flat:foreign	_	_
30	fête	fête	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	appos	_	_
31	du	du	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	flat:foreign	_	_
32	Travail	travail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	flat:foreign	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **give** | present | people | little bunches of lily of the valley |  |  | may | for good luck | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent bunch=Theme for luck=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 1 May | a public holiday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:12`.

**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.

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