Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 16

French has no English th sound; th is just t: le thé (tea) is "luh TAY" and le théâtre is "luh tay-ATR".

Who acts: French, th, tea, le théâtre · What happens: have, be · To what, where: English th sound, t, TAY, luh tay

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, th, tea, le théâtre), 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 sound	det
4	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	amod
5	th	th	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	compound
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
8	th	th	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 t	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 t	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 t	advmod
11	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	parataxis
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 le	punct
13	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 t	appos
14	thé	thé	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 le	flat
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 tea	punct
16	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 TAY	nsubj
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 tea	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 TAY	cop
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 TAY	punct
20	luh	luh	INTJ	_	21 TAY	discourse
21	TAY	tay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 le	conj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 TAY	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tay	cc
24	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 théâtre	compound
25	théâtre	théâtre	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tay	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 tay	cop
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 tay	punct
28	luh	luh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tay	amod
29	tay	tay	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 TAY	conj
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 ATR	punct
31	ATR	ATR	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 tay	appos
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 ATR	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	French	no English th sound	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
2	is a	present	th	t	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	tea	TAY and luh tay	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	le théâtre	luh tay	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:16.

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): R8-pos-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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