My family, sentence 3
Plural letters are often silent: deux frères sounds exactly like deux frère, so you can only see the s, not hear it.
Who acts: Plural letters, deux frères, you · What happens: be, sound, see, not hear · To what, where: s
This is a sentence of the lesson «My family» 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 (Plural letters, deux frères, 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 | Plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 letters | amod |
| 2 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 silent | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 silent | cop |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 silent | advmod |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 sounds | punct |
| 7 | deux | deux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frères | compound |
| 8 | frères | frère | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sounds | nsubj |
| 9 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 silent | parataxis |
| 10 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 13 frère | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 frère | case |
| 12 | deux | deux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 frère | compound |
| 13 | frère | frère | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sounds | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 see | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 see | advmod |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sounds | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 s | det |
| 21 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hear | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 hear | advmod |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hear | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Plural letters | often, silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | deux frères | like deux frère | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | can | you | the s | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer s=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not hear | infinitive | you not said here | s | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=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:014-my-family.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
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