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title: Numbering the alphabet (A = 1, B = 2...), trois, huit, un, vingt spe… — Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Numbering the alphabet (A = 1, B = 2...), trois, huit, un, vingt spells C, H, A, T: CHAT, a cat. Who acts: trois. 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 clause.
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# Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★, sentence 14

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Numbering the alphabet (A = 1, B = 2...), trois, huit, un, vingt spells C, H, A, T: CHAT, a cat.

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**Who acts:** trois · **What happens:** number, spell · **To what, where:** alphabet, C

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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 (trois), 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:14
# text = Numbering the alphabet (A = 1, B = 2...), trois, huit, un, vingt spells C, H, A, T: CHAT, a cat.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Numbering	number	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
5	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	7	case	_	_
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
9	B	B	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
12	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	trois	trois	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	huit	huit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
21	vingt	vingt	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	_
22	spells	spell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	H	H	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	A	A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	list	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	T	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
31	CHAT	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **number** | gerund | trois and huit and un *not said here* | the alphabet |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alphabet=Theme |
| 2 | **spell** | present | trois and huit and un | C and H |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent c=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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