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title: Jacques a dit ("zhak a DEE") is the French Simon says; sautez dix fo… — Numbers 0 to 20 · tree and pragmatics
description: Jacques a dit ("zhak a DEE") is the French Simon says; sautez dix fois means "jump ten times". Who acts: Jacques dit, sautez dix fois. 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 14

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Jacques a dit ("zhak a DEE") is the French Simon says; sautez dix fois means "jump ten times".

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**Who acts:** Jacques dit, sautez dix fois · **What happens:** zhak, be, mean, jump · **To what, where:** DEE · **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 (Jacques dit, sautez dix fois), 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:14
# text = Jacques a dit ("zhak a DEE") is the French Simon says; sautez dix fois means "jump ten times".
# 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	Jacques	Jacques	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dit	dit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	zhak	zhak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	DEE	DEE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det
13	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	sautez	sautez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	amod	_	_
18	dix	dix	NUM	NN	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	fois	fois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **zhak** *in a quote* | infinitive | a Jacques dit *not said here* | a DEE |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | a Jacques dit |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | sautez dix fois |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **jump** *in a quote* | infinitive | sautez dix fois *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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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