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title: Picture a video call with four penpals: one in Brussels says septant… — France and the French-speaking world · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a video call with four penpals: one in Brussels says septante for 70, one in Montreal says "Mets ta tuque !" for "Put your woolly hat on!", one in Dakar mixes French and Wolof, and one in Paris says it all the way your textbook does. Who acts: you, one, 70 one, textbook. A sentence of the le
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# France and the French-speaking world, sentence 2

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Picture a video call with four penpals: one in Brussels says septante for 70, one in Montreal says "Mets ta tuque !" for "Put your woolly hat on!", one in Dakar mixes French and Wolof, and one in Paris says it all the way your textbook does.

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**Who acts:** you, one, 70 one, textbook · **What happens:** picture, say, put on, mix, do · **To what, where:** video call, Mets, woolly hat, French, hat, way · **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 (you, one, 70 one, textbook), 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:2
# text = Picture a video call with four penpals: one in Brussels says septante for 70, one in Montreal says "Mets ta tuque !" for "Put your woolly hat on!", one in Dakar mixes French and Wolof, and one in Paris says it all the way your textbook does.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×5
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	penpals	penpal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Brussels	Brussels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	septante	septante	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	dep	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Montreal	Montreal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
22	Mets	met	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	obj	_	_
23	ta	of	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat:foreign	_	_
24	tuque	tuque	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	mark	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nsubj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	Dakar	dakar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	mixes	mix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
41	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	Wolof	Wolof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nsubj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	53	det:predet	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl:unmarked	_	_
54	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	textbook	textbook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a video call |  |  |  | with four penpals | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent call=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | one in Brussels |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | present | 70 one in Montreal | Mets |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent met=Topic |
| 4 | **put on** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your woolly hat |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hat=Goal |
| 5 | **mix** | present | one  Dakar | French and Wolof |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | one in Paris | hat |  |  |  | all way *obl:unmarked* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 7 | **do** | present | your textbook | all way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×5. **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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