Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 3

A handy trick to practise it: say "k", then slide back into a soft, breathy scrape.

What happens: practise, say, slide back · To what, where: trick, k, soft breathy scrape · 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: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 trick	det
2	handy	handy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trick	amod
3	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 practise	mark
5	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trick	acl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 practise	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trick	parataxis
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 k	punct
10	k	k	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 k	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 slide	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 slide	advmod
14	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 slide	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	21 scrape	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 scrape	det
18	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 scrape	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 soft	punct
20	breathy	breathy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 scrape	amod
21	scrape	scrape	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slide	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	practise	to-infinitive	trick			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	k			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent k=Topic
3	slide back	infinitive		a soft breathy scrape	then	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into scrape=Destination

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:3.

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): 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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