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description: In "Les ___ sont vertes", vertes is feminine plural, so only a feminine plural noun fits: les pommes. Who acts: Les, feminine plural noun. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★, sentence 13

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In "Les \_\_\_ sont vertes", vertes is feminine plural, so only a feminine plural noun fits: les pommes.

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**Who acts:** Les, feminine plural noun · **What happens:** be, fit

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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 (Les, feminine plural noun), 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:13
# text = In "Les ___ sont vertes", vertes is feminine plural, so only a feminine plural noun fits: les pommes.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	_	_	X	GW	_	6	compound	_	_
5	_	_	X	GW	_	4	goeswith	_	_
6	_	_	X	GW	_	8	compound	_	_
7	sont	sont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	vertes	verte	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	vertes	verte	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	compound	_	_
25	pommes	pomme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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** | present | Les and \_ sont vertes and vertes |  |  |  |  | plural *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit** | present | a feminine plural noun |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: 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:13`.

**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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