My family, sentence 8

Before a feminine word starting with a vowel sound, ma changes to mon so it is easy to say: mon amie (my girl friend), mon école.

Who acts: feminine word, ma · What happens: start, change, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (feminine word, ma), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	4 word	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 word	det
3	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 word	amod
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 changes	obl
5	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 word	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 sound	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sound	det
8	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sound	compound
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 changes	punct
11	ma	ma	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 changes	nsubj
12	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 mon	case
14	mon	mon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 changes	obl
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 easy	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 easy	expl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 easy	cop
18	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 changes	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 easy	csubj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 amie	punct
22	mon	mon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 amie	compound
23	amie	amie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	appos
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 friend	punct
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 friend	nmod:poss
26	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 friend	compound
27	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 amie	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 friend	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 école	punct
30	mon	mon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 école	compound
31	école	école	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 amie	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 amie	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	start	gerund	a feminine word not said here		with a vowel sound	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sound=Subeventuality
2	change	present	ma	before a feminine word	to mon result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to mon=Result
3	is	present	ma not said here		easy property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:014-my-family.lesson:8.

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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