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title: vingt means 20 and sounds like "van", through the nose; the g and t… — Numbers 0 to 20 · tree and pragmatics
description: vingt means 20 and sounds like "van", through the nose; the g and t are silent letters left over from the old Latin word viginti. Who acts: vingt, g. 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 clause.
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# Numbers 0 to 20, sentence 11

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vingt means 20 and sounds like "van", through the nose; the g and t are silent letters left over from the old Latin word viginti.

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**Who acts:** vingt, g · **What happens:** mean, sound, be, leave over · **To what, where:** 20, nose, silent letters, old Latin word

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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 (vingt, g), 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:11
# text = vingt means 20 and sounds like "van", through the nose; the g and t are silent letters left over from the old Latin word viginti.
# 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 ×2
1	vingt	vingt	X	FW	_	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	g	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
22	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	over	over	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
28	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	viginti	viginti	X	AFX	_	28	appos	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | vingt | 20 |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 20=Topic |
| 2 | **sound** | present | vingt *not said here* |  |  | the nose |  | like van | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through nose=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the g and t | silent letters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave over** | participle |  | silent letters *not said here* |  | the old Latin word |  | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location |

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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:11`.

**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 ×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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