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title: Counting to twenty in French is like learning a new playground chant… — Numbers 0 to 20 · tree and pragmatics
description: Counting to twenty in French is like learning a new playground chant: un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, and soon your mouth does it on its own. Who acts: mouth. A sentence of the lesson «Numbers 0 to 20» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Numbers 0 to 20, sentence 0

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Counting to twenty in French is like learning a new playground chant: un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, and soon your mouth does it on its own.

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**Who acts:** mouth · **What happens:** count, be, learn, do · **To what, where:** French, new playground chant, cinq, own

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Numbers 0 to 20» 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 (mouth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:006-numbers-0-to-20.lesson:0
# text = Counting to twenty in French is like learning a new playground chant: un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, and soon your mouth does it on its own.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 006-numbers-0-to-20.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): R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obj
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	deux	deux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	trois	trois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cinq	cinq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **count** | gerund |  |  |  | French |  | to twenty | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to twenty=Experiencer |
| 2 | **be** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | gerund |  | a new playground chant and deux and trois and quatre and cinq |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chant=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | present | your mouth | cinq |  | mouth's own |  | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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:006-numbers-0-to-20.lesson:0`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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