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title: J'ai neuf ans means "I am nine"; je suis neuf would mean "I am new". — Numbers 21 to 69 · tree and pragmatics
description: J'ai neuf ans means "I am nine"; je suis neuf would mean "I am new". Who acts: J'ai, qu, je. A sentence of the lesson «Numbers 21 to 69» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 21 to 69, sentence 12

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J'ai neuf ans means "I am nine"; je suis neuf would mean "I am new".

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**Who acts:** J'ai, qu, je · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** nine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Numbers 21 to 69» 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 (J'ai, qu, je), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:007-numbers-21-to-69.lesson:12
# text = J'ai neuf ans means "I am nine"; je suis neuf would mean "I am new".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 007-numbers-21-to-69.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	J'ai	j'ai	X	FW	_	4	nsubj	_	_
2	neuf	neuf	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	ans	an	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	ccomp	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	je	je	X	FW	_	15	nsubj	_	_
12	suis	suis	X	FW	_	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	neuf	neuf	X	FW	_	11	flat:foreign	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | J'ai |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | qu | nine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | would | je |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | qu |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |

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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:007-numbers-21-to-69.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): 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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