Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 2
The French r is made at the back of the throat, like a soft gargle, not with the tip of the tongue.
What happens: make · To what, where: French r, back
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: 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 r | det |
| 2 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 r | amod |
| 3 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 back | det |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 throat | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 throat | det |
| 11 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 back | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gargle | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 gargle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 gargle | det |
| 15 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gargle | amod |
| 16 | gargle | gargle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tip | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 tip | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 tip | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tip | det |
| 21 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tongue | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tongue | det |
| 24 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tip | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | 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 | make | present · passive | the French r | the back of the throat | like a soft gargle; with the tip of the tongue | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:2.
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): no change. 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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