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title: Un tour is a trip or a turn, but une tour is a tower, so the Eiffel… — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Un tour is a trip or a turn, but une tour is a tower, so the Eiffel Tower is la tour Eiffel. Who acts: tour, Eiffel Tower. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, sentence 17

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Un tour is a trip or a turn, but une tour is a tower, so the Eiffel Tower is la tour Eiffel.

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**Who acts:** tour, Eiffel Tower · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** trip, tower, tour

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: gender-pattern 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 (tour, Eiffel Tower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:038-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles.lesson:17
# text = Un tour is a trip or a turn, but une tour is a tower, so the Eiffel Tower is la tour Eiffel.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 038-olympiad-gender-pattern-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): no change
1	Un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tour	tour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	une	une	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tour	tour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Eiffel	Eiffel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tour	tour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
24	Eiffel	Eiffel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | un tour | a trip or a turn but a tower and la tour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | une tour | a tower |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the Eiffel Tower | la tour |  |  |  |  | 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:038-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles.lesson:17`.

**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): no change. **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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