Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 0

French has some sounds English does not have, and learning them is like learning new moves in a game: strange at first, then easy.

Who acts: French, English, learning · What happens: have, not have, learn, be · To what, where: sounds, game · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u» 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 (French, English, learning), 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	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 sounds	det
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 have	advmod
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sounds	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 learning	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 learning	cc
11	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 learning	csubj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 learning	obj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 learning	cop
14	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 learning	mark
15	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 has	conj
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 moves	amod
17	moves	move	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learning	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 game	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 game	det
20	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 learning	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 strange	punct
22	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 learning	parataxis
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 first	case
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 strange	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 easy	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 easy	advmod
27	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 strange	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	French	some sounds			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
2	not have	present · do-support	English	some sounds not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
3	learn	gerund		sounds = sound			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	is	present	learning		a game	learn 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:002-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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