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title: In quarante and quatre, qu says "k", with no w: quarante-quatre is "… — Numbers 21 to 69 · tree and pragmatics
description: In quarante and quatre, qu says "k", with no w: quarante-quatre is "ka-rahnt-KATR". Who acts: qu, quarante quatre. 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 9

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In quarante and quatre, qu says "k", with no w: quarante-quatre is "ka-rahnt-KATR".

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**Who acts:** qu, quarante quatre · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** k, quarante, rahnt KATR · **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 (qu, quarante quatre), 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:9
# text = In quarante and quatre, qu says "k", with no w: quarante-quatre is "ka-rahnt-KATR".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	quarante	quarante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	qu	qu	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	w	w	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	quarante	quarante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
21	ka	ka	ADV	FW	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	rahnt	rahnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	KATR	KATR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | qu | k |  | quarante and quatre |  | with no w | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent k=Theme in quarante=Manner |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | quarante quatre | rahnt KATR |  |  |  |  | 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:9`.

**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 ×2. **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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