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title: The accent circonflexe often marks a lost s: forêt (forest), hôpital… — Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The accent circonflexe often marks a lost s: forêt (forest), hôpital (hospital), fête (feast), île (isle), bête (beast), côte (coast). Who acts: accent circonflexe. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★, sentence 7

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The accent circonflexe often marks a lost s: forêt (forest), hôpital (hospital), fête (feast), île (isle), bête (beast), côte (coast).

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**Who acts:** accent circonflexe · **What happens:** mark, lose · **To what, where:** lost s

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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 (accent circonflexe), 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:7
# text = The accent circonflexe often marks a lost s: forêt (forest), hôpital (hospital), fête (feast), île (isle), bête (beast), côte (coast).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	circonflexe	circonflexe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	marks	mark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	forêt	forêt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hôpital	hôpital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	fête	fête	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	île	île	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	bête	bête	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	côte	côte	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
37	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | present | the accent circonflexe | a lost s |  |  |  | forêt and hôpital and fête and île and bête and côte *obl*; often *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent s=Destination |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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:7`.

**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): 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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