Food and drink, sentence 4

Food names often hide a little story: pain perdu, "lost bread", is French toast, made from old bread that is saved instead of thrown away.

Who acts: Food names · What happens: hide, lose, be, make, save, throw away · To what, where: little story, French toast, old bread

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and drink» 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 (Food names), 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	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 names	compound
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hide	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 hide	advmod
4	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 perdu	punct
9	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perdu	compound
10	perdu	perdu	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 perdu	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 perdu	punct
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 bread	amod
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perdu	appos
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bread	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 toast	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 toast	cop
18	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 toast	amod
19	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 toast	acl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 bread	case
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bread	amod
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 saved	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 saved	aux:pass
27	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bread	acl:relcl
28	instead	instead	ADV	_	30 thrown	mark
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 thrown	mark
30	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 saved	advcl
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 thrown	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hide	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Food names	a little story		pain perdu obl; often property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
2	lose in a quote	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		French toast			tree rules
4	make	participle		French toast not said here	old bread		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from bread=Material
5	save	present · passive		old bread			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	throw away	participle				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:018-food-and-drink.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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