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title: From 70 to 99 France counts in a funny old way: 70 is soixante-dix (… — Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: From 70 to 99 France counts in a funny old way: 70 is soixante-dix (sixty-ten), 80 is quatre-vingts (four twenties) and 90 is quatre-vingt-dix (four twenties and ten); Belgium and Switzerland say septante for 70 and nonante for 90, and some Swiss say huitante for 80. Who acts: France, 80, 90, Belgiu
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# Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★, sentence 1

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From 70 to 99 France counts in a funny old way: 70 is soixante-dix (sixty-ten), 80 is quatre-vingts (four twenties) and 90 is quatre-vingt-dix (four twenties and ten); Belgium and Switzerland say septante for 70 and nonante for 90, and some Swiss say huitante for 80.

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**Who acts:** France, 80, 90, Belgium, Swiss · **What happens:** count, be, say · **To what, where:** 70, soixante, quatre vingts, quatre vingt dix, septante, huitante · **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 (France, 80, 90, Belgium), 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:1
# text = From 70 to 99 France counts in a funny old way: 70 is soixante-dix (sixty-ten), 80 is quatre-vingts (four twenties) and 90 is quatre-vingt-dix (four twenties and ten); Belgium and Switzerland say septante for 70 and nonante for 90, and some Swiss say huitante for 80.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	99	99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	soixante	soixante	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
17	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
19	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
24	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nummod
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	vingts	vingt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
30	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	twenties	twenty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:conj
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
34	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
36	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	_
38	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
40	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
41	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
42	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	twenties	twenty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:nmod
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
52	septante	septante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=51:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	51	obl	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	nonante	nonante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=54:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur
57	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	54	nmod	_	_
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=62:punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
61	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	62	det	_	_
62	Swiss	Swiss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=63:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
63	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
64	huitante	huitante	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	63	obj	_	_
65	for	for	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	63	obl	_	_
67	.	.	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 | **count** | present | France |  |  | 70 to 99 |  | in a funny old way | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | France *not said here* | soixante and dix |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | 80 | quatre vingts and quatre vingt dix and four twenties |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | 90 | quatre vingt dix and four twenties |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Belgium and Switzerland | septante |  |  |  | for 70 for 90 and nonante | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent septante=Topic |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some Swiss | huitante |  |  |  | for 80 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent huitante=Topic |

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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:1`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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.

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