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title: Il s'appelle Minou." means "Lost: small black cat with green eyes, c… — Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Il s'appelle Minou." means "Lost: small black cat with green eyes, called Minou". Who acts: Il. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 19

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Il s'appelle Minou." means "Lost: small black cat with green eyes, called Minou".

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**Who acts:** Il · **What happens:** s'appelle, mean, lose, call · **To what, where:** Minou, small black cat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» 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 (Il), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson:19
# text = Il s'appelle Minou." means "Lost: small black cat with green eyes, called Minou".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Il	Il	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	s'appelle	s'appelle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	csubj	_	_
3	Minou	Minou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
18	Minou	Minou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **s'appelle** | present | Il | Minou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle |  | small black cat with green eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson:19`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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