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title: Picture a bakery in Lyon: hold up your thumb and pointing finger and… — Numbers 0 to 20 · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a bakery in Lyon: hold up your thumb and pointing finger and the baker gives you two croissants, because the French start counting on the thumb. Who acts: you, baker, French. A sentence of the lesson «Numbers 0 to 20» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Numbers 0 to 20, sentence 4

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Picture a bakery in Lyon: hold up your thumb and pointing finger and the baker gives you two croissants, because the French start counting on the thumb.

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**Who acts:** you, baker, French · **What happens:** picture, hold up, give, start, count · **To what, where:** bakery, Lyon, thumb, two croissants, you

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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 (you, baker, 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:4
# text = Picture a bakery in Lyon: hold up your thumb and pointing finger and the baker gives you two croissants, because the French start counting on the thumb.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bakery	bakery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Lyon	lyon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	pointing	pointing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	croissants	croissant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
24	French	French	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	xcomp	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a bakery |  | Lyon |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent bakery=Theme |
| 2 | **hold up** | infinitive |  | your thumb and pointing finger |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thumb=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | present | the baker | two croissants | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient croissant=Theme |
| 4 | **start** | present | the French |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **count** | gerund | the French *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the thumb | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on thumb=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:4`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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