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title: quatre-vingts has an s only when no other number follows it: 80 is q… — Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts · tree and pragmatics
description: quatre-vingts has an s only when no other number follows it: 80 is quatre-vingts, but 81 is quatre-vingt-un, with no s and no et. Who acts: quatre vingts, other number, 80. A sentence of the lesson «Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts» of the french course of Mova's primary school with
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# Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts, sentence 8

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quatre-vingts has an s only when no other number follows it: 80 is quatre-vingts, but 81 is quatre-vingt-un, with no s and no et.

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**Who acts:** quatre vingts, other number, 80 · **What happens:** have, follow, be · **To what, where:** s, quatre, quatre vingts, 81 quatre vingt un

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts» 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 (quatre vingts, other number, 80), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:008-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts.lesson:8
# text = quatre-vingts has an s only when no other number follows it: 80 is quatre-vingts, but 81 is quatre-vingt-un, with no s and no et.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 008-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	vingts	vingt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	s	s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nummod
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	vingts	vingt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	81	81	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
24	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
28	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	et.	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	obj	_	_
```

## 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 | **have** | present | quatre vingts | a s |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | present | no other number | quatre |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | 80 | quatre vingts but 81 quatre vingt un and no s |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | 80 *not said here* | 81 quatre vingt un |  |  |  |  | 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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**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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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