--- title: At Easter, French children are told that church bells fly away to Ro… — 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days · tree and pragmatics description: At Easter, French children are told that church bells fly away to Rome and come back on Easter Sunday, dropping chocolate eggs into gardens. Who acts: church bells. 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 dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/) / 3 # 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days, sentence 3 At Easter, French children are told that church bells fly away to Rome and come back on Easter Sunday, dropping chocolate eggs into gardens. **Who acts:** church bells · **What happens:** tell, fly away, come back, drop · **To what, where:** French children, Easter, Rome, chocolate eggs, gardens · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (church bells), 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:3 # text = At Easter, French children are told that church bells fly away to Rome and come back on Easter Sunday, dropping chocolate eggs into gardens. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Easter Easter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Easter Easter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 dropping drop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 23 chocolate chocolate NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | French children | | Easter | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **fly away** | present | church bells | | Rome | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to rome=Result | | 3 | **come back** | present | church bells *not said here* | | | | sunday | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **drop** | gerund | church bells *not said here* | chocolate eggs | | gardens | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme into garden=Destination | 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:3`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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