The body, sentence 8
les cheveux ("lay shuh-VUH") is the hair on your head, always plural; un cheveu is one single hair.
Who acts: les · What happens: lay, be · To what, where: hair, head, one single hair
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 (les), 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 | les | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 hair | nsubj |
| 2 | cheveux | Cheveux | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 les | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 les | conj |
| 6 | shuh | shuh | INTJ | _ | 5 lay | discourse |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 VUH | punct |
| 8 | VUH | vuh | INTJ | _ | 1 les | discourse |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 VUH | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 VUH | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hair | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hair | det |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hair | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 plural | punct |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 plural | advmod |
| 19 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hair | parataxis |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 cheveu | punct |
| 21 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cheveu | compound |
| 22 | cheveu | cheveu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plural | conj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 hair | cop |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 hair | nummod |
| 25 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hair | amod |
| 26 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hair | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hair | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay in a quote | infinitive | les not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | les | the hair | your head | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | one single hair | 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: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): R6-punct-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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