--- title: French is not only the language of France: it is spoken on every con… — France and the French-speaking world · tree and pragmatics description: French is not only the language of France: it is spoken on every continent, and all the people and places that speak it together are called la francophonie. Who acts: French, people. 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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 (French, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:034-france-and-the-french-speaking-world.lesson:0 # text = French is not only the language of France: it is spoken on every continent, and all the people and places that speak it together are called la francophonie. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 034-france-and-the-french-speaking-world.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 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 18 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 20 det:predet _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 together together ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 29 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 28 xcomp _ _ 30 francophonie francophonie X FW Foreign=Yes 29 flat:foreign _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | French | the language | | | | of France | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive | | language | | every continent | | | tree rules | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | all people and places | language | | | | together *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | all people and places | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:034-france-and-the-french-speaking-world.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/33-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days/16/) - next →: [France and the French-speaking world, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world/)