Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes, sentence 14
Vous parlez anglais ? means "Do you speak English?" and sounds like "voo par-LAY ahn-GLAY?"
Who acts: Vous, you · What happens: parler, mean, speak, sound, lay · To what, where: anglais, English · 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 (Vous, you), 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 | Vous | vous | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 parlez | nsubj |
| 2 | parlez | parler | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | csubj |
| 3 | anglais | anglais | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 parlez | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 speak | punct |
| 7 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 speak | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 speak | nsubj |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 means | ccomp |
| 10 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 speak | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 speak | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 speak | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sounds | cc |
| 14 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | conj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 par | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 par | punct |
| 17 | voo | voo | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 par | nsubj |
| 18 | par | par | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sounds | obl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 LAY | punct |
| 20 | LAY | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 par | flat |
| 21 | ahn | ahn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 par | flat |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 GLAY | punct |
| 23 | GLAY | GLAY | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 par | flat |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | parler | present | Vous | anglais | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | English | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sound | present | like par | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | lay in a quote | infinitive | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:14.
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 ×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.
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