Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 14
The French j is soft, like the middle of "measure": je (I) is "zhuh", jaune (yellow) is "ZHOHN".
Who acts: French j · What happens: be · To what, where: yellow ZHOHN
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 j), 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 j | det |
| 2 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 j | amod |
| 3 | j | J | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soft | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soft | cop |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 middle | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soft | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 measure | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 measure | punct |
| 12 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 middle | nmod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 measure | punct |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 je | punct |
| 15 | je | je | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soft | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 I | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 je | conj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 I | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 zhuh | cop |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 zhuh | punct |
| 21 | zhuh | zhuh | INTJ | _ | 5 soft | parataxis |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 zhuh | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 jaune | punct |
| 24 | jaune | jaune | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 5 soft | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 yellow | punct |
| 26 | yellow | yellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ZHOHN | compound |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 yellow | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 ZHOHN | cop |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 ZHOHN | punct |
| 30 | ZHOHN | ZHOHN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 soft | obl |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 ZHOHN | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 soft | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the French j | like the middle of measure; soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | yellow ZHOHN | 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:14.
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 ×2, 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.
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