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title: Quatre-vingts has an s when no other number follows it (quatre-vingt… — Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Quatre-vingts has an s when no other number follows it (quatre-vingts pommes, quatre-vingts euros), but loses it when one does (quatre-vingt-cinq). Who acts: Quatre, other number, pommes, one. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school 
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# Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★, sentence 14

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Quatre-vingts has an s when no other number follows it (quatre-vingts pommes, quatre-vingts euros), but loses it when one does (quatre-vingt-cinq).

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**Who acts:** Quatre, other number, pommes, one · **What happens:** have, follow, euro, lose, do · **To what, where:** s, quatre, quatre vingt cinq

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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 (Quatre, other number, pommes, one), 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:14
# text = Quatre-vingts has an s when no other number follows it (quatre-vingts pommes, quatre-vingts euros), but loses it when one does (quatre-vingt-cinq).
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	vingts	vingt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	flat	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
14	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	vingts	vingt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
17	pommes	pomme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
21	vingts	vingt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	euros	euro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nsubj	_	_
30	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
32	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
34	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
36	cinq	cinq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | Quatre | a s |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | present | no other number | quatre |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **euro** |  | pommes and quatre vingts |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | present | Quatre *not said here* | quatre |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **do** | present | one | quatre vingt cinq |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cinq=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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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.

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