--- title: But French does some things its own way: Zoe learns "la table" is fe… — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics description: But French does some things its own way: Zoe learns "la table" is feminine and "le livre" is masculine, and wonders if tables wear dresses; they don't, it's just a grammar label. Who acts: French, Zoe, tables, dresses. A sentence of the lesson «French compared with English» of the language course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [French compared with English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/) / 1 # French compared with English, sentence 1 But French does some things its own way: Zoe learns "la table" is feminine and "le livre" is masculine, and wonders if tables wear dresses; they don't, it's just a grammar label. **Who acts:** French, Zoe, tables, dresses, table · **What happens:** do, learn, be, wonder, wear, not do · **To what, where:** things, la table, dresses, grammar label · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «French compared with English» of the language 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, Zoe, tables, dresses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:035-french-compared-with-english.lesson:1 # text = But French does some things its own way: Zoe learns "la table" is feminine and "le livre" is masculine, and wonders if tables wear dresses; they don't, it's just a grammar label. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 035-french-compared-with-english.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): no change 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 10 Zoe Zoe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 la la X FW _ 14 compound _ _ 14 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 feminine feminine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 livre livre NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 masculine masculine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 wonders wonder VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 tables table NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 35 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 38 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 39 just just ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 label label NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 parataxis _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | French | some things | | | | neighbour's own way *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 2 | **learn** | present | Zoe | la table | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | feminine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | masculine *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | Zoe *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **wear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | tables | dresses | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | | 7 | **not** **do** | present | dresses *= dress* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | present | table | a grammar label | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:language:035-french-compared-with-english.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [French compared with English, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/0/) - next →: [French compared with English, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/)