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title: From seventeen French builds the number: dix-sept is ten-seven, dix-… — Numbers 0 to 20 · tree and pragmatics
description: From seventeen French builds the number: dix-sept is ten-seven, dix-huit ten-eight and dix-neuf ten-nine, joined with a hyphen. Who acts: French. 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 3

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From seventeen French builds the number: dix-sept is ten-seven, dix-huit ten-eight and dix-neuf ten-nine, joined with a hyphen.

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**Who acts:** French · **What happens:** build, be, join · **To what, where:** number, seventeen, ten seven

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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 (French), 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:3
# text = From seventeen French builds the number: dix-sept is ten-seven, dix-huit ten-eight and dix-neuf ten-nine, joined with a hyphen.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	sept	sept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	huit	huit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
21	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	neuf	neuf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hyphen	hyphen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **build** | present | French | the number |  | seventeen |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent number=Product from seventeen=Material |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | ten seven |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **join** | participle | French *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a hyphen | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with hyphen=Co-Patient |

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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:3`.

**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): R6-punct-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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