Dates and birthdays, sentence 3

At a French birthday party the tune is the same as "Happy birthday", but the words are Joyeux anniversaire, and someone shouts Souffle les bougies ! (blow out the candles!).

Who acts: tune, words, someone · What happens: be, shout, blow out · To what, where: French birthday party, Joyeux anniversaire, Souffle, candles

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dates and birthdays» 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 (tune, words, someone), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 party	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 party	det
3	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 party	amod
4	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 party	compound
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 same	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tune	det
7	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 same	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 same	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 same	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 birthday	case
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 birthday	punct
13	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 birthday	amod
14	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 same	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 birthday	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 anniversaire	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 anniversaire	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 words	det
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 anniversaire	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 anniversaire	cop
21	Joyeux	Joyeux	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 anniversaire	compound
22	anniversaire	anniversaire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 same	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shouts	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shouts	cc
25	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 shouts	nsubj
26	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 anniversaire	conj
27	Souffle	souffle	X	Foreign=Yes	26 shouts	obj
28	les	le	X	Foreign=Yes	27 Souffle	flat:foreign
29	bougies	bougie	X	Foreign=Yes	27 Souffle	flat:foreign
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 same	punct
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 blow	punct
32	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 same	parataxis
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 blow	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 candles	det
35	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 blow	obj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 blow	punct
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 blow	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 same	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tune		a French birthday party	as Happy birthday; same property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the words	Joyeux anniversaire			tree rules
3	shout speech: express	present	someone	Souffle			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent souffle=Topic
4	blow out	infinitive		the candles			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient

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:011-dates-and-birthdays.lesson:3.

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 ×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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