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title: Many French endings are written but not said: "ils parlent" (they sp… — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics
description: Many French endings are written but not said: "ils parlent" (they speak) sounds like "eel parl". Who acts: endings. A sentence of the lesson «French compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# French compared with English, sentence 10

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Many French endings are written but not said: "ils parlent" (they speak) sounds like "eel parl".

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**Who acts:** endings · **What happens:** write, not say, speak, sound · **To what, where:** Many French endings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (endings), 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:10
# text = Many French endings are written but not said: "ils parlent" (they speak) sounds like "eel parl".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	endings	ending	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	ils	il	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	parlent	parlent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
18	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	parl	parl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **write** | present · passive |  | Many French endings |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | endings *= ending* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sound** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like eel parl | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:language:035-french-compared-with-english.lesson:10`.

**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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