Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 11
tu means you (to a friend) and uses the French u; tout means all and sounds like English "too".
Who acts: tout · What happens: mean, use, sound · To what, where: you, French u, all
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 (tout), 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 | tu | tu | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 means | discourse |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 friend | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 friend | det |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obl |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 uses | cc |
| 10 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 u | det |
| 12 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 u | amod |
| 13 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uses | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 15 | tout | tout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | parataxis |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 means | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sounds | cc |
| 19 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 means | conj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 English | case |
| 21 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sounds | obl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 too | punct |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 English | advmod |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 too | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | you | to a friend | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot you=Theme to friend=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | use | present | the French u | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent u=Patient | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | tout | all | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sound | present | tout not said here | like English | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:11.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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