The body, sentence 0
The quickest way to learn the body in French is a game: in Jacques a dit, touchez la tête ! means "Simon says, touch your head!", and anyone who touches a knee is out.
Who acts: quickest way, Simon, anyone · What happens: learn, be, mean, say, touch · To what, where: body, French, game, Jacques, head, knee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The body» 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 (quickest way, Simon, anyone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | quickest | quick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 game | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 learn | mark |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 way | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 body | det |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learn | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 French | case |
| 9 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 learn | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 game | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 game | det |
| 12 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 game | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Jacques | case |
| 15 | Jacques | Jacques | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 means | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dit | det |
| 17 | dit | dit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Jacques | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 touchez | punct |
| 19 | touchez | touchez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Jacques | conj |
| 20 | la | la | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 19 touchez | conj |
| 21 | tête | tête | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 la | flat |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 Jacques | punct |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 game | parataxis |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 says | punct |
| 25 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 says | nsubj |
| 26 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 means | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 touch | punct |
| 28 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 says | ccomp |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 touch | obj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 touch | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 touch | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 out | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 out | cc |
| 35 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 41 out | nsubj |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 touches | nsubj |
| 37 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 knee | det |
| 39 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 touches | obj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 out | cop |
| 41 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 means | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 game | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | to-infinitive | the quickest way not said here | the body | French | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the quickest way | a game | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | Jacques a dit | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | say speech: express in a quote | present | Simon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | touch in a quote | infinitive | your head | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme | |||||
| 6 | touch | present | a knee | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme knee=Co-Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | present | anyone | out property | 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:016-the-body.lesson:0.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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