Telling the time, sentence 10
midi means noon and minuit means midnight; le Midi is also a name for the south of France.
Who acts: midi, minuit, le Midi · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of the lesson «Telling the time» 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 (midi, minuit, le Midi), 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 | midi | midi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 means | cc |
| 5 | minuit | minuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | conj |
| 7 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 name | punct |
| 9 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Midi | compound |
| 10 | Midi | midi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 name | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 name | cop |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 name | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 south | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 south | det |
| 17 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 name | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 France | case |
| 19 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 south | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | midi | noon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | minuit | midnight | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | le Midi | a name | for the south of France | tree rules |
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:012-telling-the-time.lesson:10.
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 ×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.
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