--- title: Other days are quieter: on 1 May people give little white flowers fo… — 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days · tree and pragmatics description: Other days are quieter: on 1 May people give little white flowers for luck, and on 11 November whole villages stand in silence at the war memorial. Who acts: Other days, 1 May people, whole villages. A sentence of the lesson «14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days» of the french course of --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days, sentence 4 Other days are quieter: on 1 May people give little white flowers for luck, and on 11 November whole villages stand in silence at the war memorial. **Who acts:** Other days, 1 May people, whole villages · **What happens:** be, give, stand · **To what, where:** little white flowers, silence 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 (Other days, 1 May people, whole villages), 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:4 # text = Other days are quieter: on 1 May people give little white flowers for luck, and on 11 November whole villages stand in silence at the war memorial. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 quieter quiet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 21 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 memorial memorial NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Other days | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | 1 May people | little white flowers | | | | for luck | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for luck=Asset | | 3 | **stand** | present | whole villages | | | silence | november | at the war memorial | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location | 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:4`. **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. 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