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title: In Senegal many people speak French and Wolof; in many West African… — France and the French-speaking world · tree and pragmatics
description: In Senegal many people speak French and Wolof; in many West African countries people speak French and one or more African languages. Who acts: many people, people. A sentence of the lesson «France and the French-speaking world» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# France and the French-speaking world, sentence 12

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In Senegal many people speak French and Wolof; in many West African countries people speak French and one or more African languages.

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**Who acts:** many people, people · **What happens:** speak · **To what, where:** French, Senegal, many West African countries · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «France and the French-speaking world» 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 (many people, 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:12
# text = In Senegal many people speak French and Wolof; in many West African countries people speak French and one or more African languages.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Senegal	Senegal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Wolof	Wolof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	West	West	ADJ	JJ	_	14	amod	_	_
13	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	_
22	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | many people | French and Wolof |  | Senegal |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | people | French and one African languages |  | many West African countries |  |  | 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:034-france-and-the-french-speaking-world.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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