Pets and animals, sentence 4

Animals sound the same everywhere, but each language writes the noises differently: a French dog says ouaf ouaf and a French rooster says cocorico.

Who acts: Animals, language, French dog, French rooster · What happens: sound, write, say · To what, where: same, noises, ouaf ouaf, cocorico · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and animals» 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 (Animals, language, French dog, French rooster), 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	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sound	nsubj
2	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sound	obj
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 sound	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 writes	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 writes	cc
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 language	det
9	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 writes	nsubj
10	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sound	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 noises	det
12	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 writes	obj
13	differently	differently	ADV	_	10 writes	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dog	det
16	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dog	amod
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	nsubj
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sound	parataxis
19	ouaf	ouaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ouaf	compound
20	ouaf	ouaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 says	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rooster	det
23	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rooster	amod
24	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 says	nsubj
25	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 says	conj
26	cocorico	cocorico	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 says	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sound	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	present	Animals	the same	everywhere property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme
2	write	present	each language	the noises	differently property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	a French dog	ouaf ouaf		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ouaf=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present	a French rooster	cocorico		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cocorico=Topic

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:015-pets-and-animals.lesson:4.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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