--- title: Paris, the capital of France, is said "pa-REE" and stands on the riv… — France and the French-speaking world · tree and pragmatics description: Paris, the capital of France, is said "pa-REE" and stands on the river Seine; the Eiffel Tower, la tour Eiffel, was built for a world fair in 1889. 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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: 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:17 # text = Paris, the capital of France, is said "pa-REE" and stands on the river Seine; the Eiffel Tower, la tour Eiffel, was built for a world fair in 1889. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Paris Paris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 pa pa NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 REE ree NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Seine Seine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Eiffel Eiffel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Tower Tower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 la la DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tour tour NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 Eiffel Eiffel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 fair fair NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 1889 1889 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | Paris | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stand** | present | | | | the river Seine | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seine=Location | | 3 | **build** | past · passive | | the Eiffel Tower | | 1889 | | for a world fair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for fair=Asset | 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:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [France and the French-speaking world, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world/14/) - next →: [False friends, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world/)