Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 15
qu almost always says "k" in French: quatre (four) is "KATR", qui (who) is "KEE".
Who acts: qu, KATR · What happens: say, be · To what, where: k, French, KATR, KEE · 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 (qu, KATR), 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 | qu | qu | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 always | advmod |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | _ | 4 says | advmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 k | punct |
| 6 | k | k | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 k | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 French | case |
| 9 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 quatre | punct |
| 11 | quatre | quatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 k | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 four | punct |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 quatre | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 four | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 KATR | cop |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 KATR | punct |
| 17 | KATR | KATR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 KATR | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 qui | punct |
| 20 | qui | qui | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 KATR | dep |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 who | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 KEE | nsubj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 who | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 KEE | cop |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 KEE | punct |
| 26 | KEE | KEE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 KATR | parataxis |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 KEE | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | qu | k and quatre | French | always property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent k=Theme in french=Manner | ||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | KATR | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | KATR | KEE | 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:15.
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.
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