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title: In "Les petits chats sont gris" there are 7 written but silent final… — Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: In "Les petits chats sont gris" there are 7 written but silent final consonants: les (s), petits (t, s), chats (t, s), sont (t), gris (s). Who acts: 7 written final consonants. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★, sentence 11

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In "Les petits chats sont gris" there are 7 written but silent final consonants: les (s), petits (t, s), chats (t, s), sont (t), gris (s).

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**Who acts:** 7 written final consonants · **What happens:** be, write · **To what, where:** petits chats

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» 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 (7 written final consonants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:040-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers.lesson:11
# text = In "Les petits chats sont gris" there are 7 written but silent final consonants: les (s), petits (t, s), chats (t, s), sont (t), gris (s).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 040-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Les	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	petits	petit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
6	sont	sont	X	FW	_	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	gris	gris	X	FW	_	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
12	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod
15	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	consonants	consonant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
18	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	s	s	X	AFX	_	18	amod	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	petits	petit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	s	s	X	AFX	_	25	amod	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	s	s	X	AFX	_	32	amod	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
39	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	gris	gris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
43	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	44	punct	_	_
44	s	s	X	AFX	_	42	amod	_	_
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	44	punct	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **does** | present | 7 written final consonants and les and petits and chats and sont and gris |  |  | le petits chats; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chat=Location |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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:040-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.

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

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