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title: Big French numbers are little sums in disguise: quatre-vingt-dix-sep… — Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Big French numbers are little sums in disguise: quatre-vingt-dix-sept is "four twenties, ten and seven", so 4 × 20 + 10 + 7 = 97. Who acts: Big French numbers, vingt dix sept. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★, sentence 0

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Big French numbers are little sums in disguise: quatre-vingt-dix-sept is "four twenties, ten and seven", so 4 × 20 + 10 + 7 = 97.

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**Who acts:** Big French numbers, vingt dix sept · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** little sums, disguise, four twenties · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★» 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 (Big French numbers, vingt dix sept), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:037-olympiad-number-word-puzzles.lesson:0
# text = Big French numbers are little sums in disguise: quatre-vingt-dix-sept is "four twenties, ten and seven", so 4 × 20 + 10 + 7 = 97.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 037-olympiad-number-word-puzzles.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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Big	Big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:amod
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
10	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	sept	sept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	twenties	twenty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc
24	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	6	conj	_	_
30	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
31	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:case
32	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
33	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	34	cc	_	_
34	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	_
35	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	36	case	_	_
36	97	97	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Big French numbers | little sums |  | disguise |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | vingt dix sept | four twenties |  |  |  |  | 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:037-olympiad-number-word-puzzles.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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