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title: La marelle ("la ma-REL") is hopscotch, and children often call out t… — Numbers 0 to 20 · tree and pragmatics
description: La marelle ("la ma-REL") is hopscotch, and children often call out the number of each square as they land. Who acts: La, children. 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 15

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La marelle ("la ma-REL") is hopscotch, and children often call out the number of each square as they land.

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**Who acts:** La, children · **What happens:** be, call out, land · **To what, where:** hopscotch, number

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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 (La, children), 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:15
# text = La marelle ("la ma-REL") is hopscotch, and children often call out the number of each square as they land.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	La	la	X	GW	_	12	nsubj	_	_
2	marelle	marelle	X	NN	_	1	goeswith	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	la	la	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
8	REL	REL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	hopscotch	hopscotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	land	land	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is a** | present | La | hopscotch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | present | children | the number of each square |  |  |  | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |
| 3 | **land** | present | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «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:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-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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