--- title: In Quebec, in Canada, "C'est l'fun!" means "It's fun!"; Quebec Frenc… — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics description: In Quebec, in Canada, "C'est l'fun!" means "It's fun!"; Quebec French has its own words, accents and expressions, like the different kinds of English. Who acts: l'fun, Quebec French. A sentence of the lesson «French compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # French compared with English, sentence 12 In Quebec, in Canada, "C'est l'fun!" means "It's fun!"; Quebec French has its own words, accents and expressions, like the different kinds of English. **Who acts:** l'fun, Quebec French · **What happens:** mean, be, have, word · **To what, where:** fun, own words · **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 (l'fun, Quebec French), 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:12 # text = In Quebec, in Canada, "C'est l'fun!" means "It's fun!"; Quebec French has its own words, accents and expressions, like the different kinds of English. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Quebec Quebec PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 C'est c'est X FW Foreign=Yes 9 dep _ _ 9 l'fun l'fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 list _ _ 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 Quebec Quebec PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 expressions expression NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | in Quebec in Canada | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in quebec=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | l'fun | fun | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | Quebec French | l'fun's own words and accents and expressions | | | | like the different kinds of English | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 4 | **word** | | l'fun | | | | | like the different kinds of English | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent like=obl | 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: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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/11/) - next →: [French compared with English, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/)