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title: The letters of CHIEN can be rearranged into NICHE, and une niche is… — Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The letters of CHIEN can be rearranged into NICHE, and une niche is a dog's kennel. Who acts: une niche. 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 8

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The letters of CHIEN can be rearranged into NICHE, and une niche is a dog's kennel.

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**Who acts:** une niche · **What happens:** rearrange, be, letter · **To what, where:** letters, NICHE, kennel, CHIEN

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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 (une niche), 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:8
# text = The letters of CHIEN can be rearranged into NICHE, and une niche is a dog's kennel.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	CHIEN	CHIEN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	rearranged	rearrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	NICHE	niche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	niche	niche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	kennel	kennel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **rearrange** | can · passive |  | the letters of CHIEN |  | NICHE |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | present | une niche | a dog's kennel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **letter** |  |  | CHIEN |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:8`.

**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. **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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