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title: zéro means 0 and sounds like "zay-RO", because é says "ay". — Numbers 0 to 20 · tree and pragmatics
description: zéro means 0 and sounds like "zay-RO", because é says "ay". Who acts: zéro, é. 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 12

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zéro means 0 and sounds like "zay-RO", because é says "ay".

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**Who acts:** zéro, é · **What happens:** mean, sound, say · **To what, where:** 0 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (zéro, é), 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:12
# text = zéro means 0 and sounds like "zay-RO", because é says "ay".
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	zéro	zéro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	0	0	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	_	10	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	zay	zay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	RO	ro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	é	é	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	ay	ay	INTJ	UH	_	15	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	.	.	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 | zéro | 0 |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 0=Topic |
| 2 | **sound** | present | zéro *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like zay RO | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | é |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:006-numbers-0-to-20.lesson:12`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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