Silent letters: why French doesn't say everything it writes, sentence 17

On words that are not doing words, -ent can be heard as a nasal "ahn": le vent (the wind) sounds like "luh VAHN".

Who acts: words, le vent · What happens: not do, hear, sound · To what, where: words, ent

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 (words, le vent), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 words	case
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	obl
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 doing	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 doing	advmod
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 words	acl
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ent	punct
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ent	punct
10	ent	ent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	nsubj:pass
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 heard	aux:pass
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 nasal	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ahn	det
16	nasal	nasal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ahn	amod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 ahn	punct
18	ahn	ahn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 ahn	punct
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 vent	punct
21	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 vent	compound
22	vent	vent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nasal	conj
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 wind	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wind	det
25	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 vent	appos
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 wind	punct
27	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 vent	acl:relcl
28	like	like	ADP	_	31 VAHN	case
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 VAHN	punct
30	luh	luh	INTJ	_	31 VAHN	discourse
31	VAHN	VAHN	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sounds	obl
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 VAHN	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not do	present · progressive	words	words			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
2	hear	can · passive		ent	words	a nasal ahn obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	sound	present	le vent not said here			like VAHN	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:17.

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): R5-strong ×4. 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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