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title: Ballet grew up at the French court, so its steps have French names s… — English words that came from French · tree and pragmatics
description: Ballet grew up at the French court, so its steps have French names such as plié and pirouette, and the t of ballet is silent. Who acts: Ballet, steps, t. A sentence of the lesson «English words that came from French» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# English words that came from French, sentence 15

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Ballet grew up at the French court, so its steps have French names such as plié and pirouette, and the t of ballet is silent.

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**Who acts:** Ballet, steps, t · **What happens:** grow up, have, be, step · **To what, where:** French court, French names

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This is a sentence of the lesson «English words that came from French» 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 (Ballet, steps, t), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:036-english-words-that-came-from-french.lesson:15
# text = Ballet grew up at the French court, so its steps have French names such as plié and pirouette, and the t of ballet is silent.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 036-english-words-that-came-from-french.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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	Ballet	ballet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	plié	plié	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
19	pirouette	pirouette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ballet	ballet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **grow up** | past | Ballet |  |  | the French court |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | ballet's steps | French names |  |  |  | such plié and pirouette | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the t of ballet |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **step** |  | ballet |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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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