Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes, sentence 12

In French ou says "oo" and oi says "wa": Louis sounds like "LWEE", moi like "mwa" and un croissant like "uhn krwa-SAHN".

Who acts: ou, oi, Louis · What happens: say, sound · To what, where: oo, French, wa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes» 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 (ou, oi, Louis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 French	case
2	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	obl
3	ou	ou	X	Foreign=Yes	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 oo	punct
6	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 oo	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
9	oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wa	punct
12	wa	wa	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wa	punct
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 sounds	punct
15	Louis	Louis	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sounds	nsubj
16	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 LWEE	case
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 LWEE	punct
19	LWEE	LWEE	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sounds	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 LWEE	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 moi	punct
22	moi	moi	X	Foreign=Yes	19 LWEE	flat:foreign
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 mwa	case
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 mwa	punct
25	mwa	mwa	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 LWEE	nmod
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 mwa	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 croissant	cc
28	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 croissant	compound
29	croissant	croissant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mwa	conj
30	like	like	ADP	_	33 krwa	case
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 krwa	punct
32	uhn	uhn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 krwa	amod
33	krwa	krwa	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 croissant	nmod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 SAHN	punct
35	SAHN	SAHN	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 krwa	appos
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 SAHN	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	ou	oo	French		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent oo=Theme in french=Manner
2	say speech: assert	present	oi	wa			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wa=Topic
3	sound	present	Louis			like LWEE like mwa and un croissant like uhn krwa	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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, 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:french:001-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes.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): R8-pos-agree ×1. 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.

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