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title: 70 in French is "soixante-dix" (sixty-ten), 80 is "quatre-vingts" (f… — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics
description: 70 in French is "soixante-dix" (sixty-ten), 80 is "quatre-vingts" (four twenties) and 90 is "quatre-vingt-dix" (four twenties ten); in Belgium and Switzerland people say "septante" for 70 and "nonante" for 90. Who acts: 80, 90, people. A sentence of the lesson «French compared with English» of the l
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# French compared with English, sentence 6

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70 in French is "soixante-dix" (sixty-ten), 80 is "quatre-vingts" (four twenties) and 90 is "quatre-vingt-dix" (four twenties ten); in Belgium and Switzerland people say "septante" for 70 and "nonante" for 90.

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**Who acts:** 80, 90, people · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** 70 soixante dix, French, quatre vingts, quatre vingt dix, septante, Belgium · **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 (80, 90, people), 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:6
# text = 70 in French is "soixante-dix" (sixty-ten), 80 is "quatre-vingts" (four twenties) and 90 is "quatre-vingt-dix" (four twenties ten); in Belgium and Switzerland people say "septante" for 70 and "nonante" for 90.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	soixante	soixante	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat:foreign	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
11	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	parataxis	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
21	vingts	vingt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	twenties	twenty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
28	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
31	quatre	quatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	vingt	vingt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
35	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
38	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	twenties	twenty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	appos	_	_
40	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	flat	_	_
41	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=44:cc
46	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
49	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	_
50	septante	septante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=48:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Foreign=Yes
51	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=53:cc
55	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	56	punct	_	_
56	nonante	nonante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=53:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Foreign=Yes
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	56	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct
58	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	obl	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | 70 soixante dix and quatre vingts and four twenties and quatre vingt dix |  | French |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | 80 | quatre vingts and four twenties |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | 90 | quatre vingt dix |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | septante |  | Belgium and Switzerland |  | for 70 and nonante; for 90 | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent septante=Theme in belgium=Manner |

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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:6`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, R8-pos-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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