Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 6

bon means good; on is a nasal vowel, so the air goes through the nose and the n is not said as in English "bonnet".

Who acts: bon, on, air · What happens: mean, be, go, not say · To what, where: nasal vowel, nose, n · 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 (bon, on, air), 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	bon	bon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 vowel	punct
5	on	on	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vowel	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 vowel	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 vowel	det
8	nasal	nasal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vowel	amod
9	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 goes	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 goes	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 goes	nsubj
14	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 nose	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nose	det
17	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 goes	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 n	det
20	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	aux:pass
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 said	advmod
23	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 goes	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	28 bonnet	case
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 English	case
26	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 bonnet	nmod
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 bonnet	punct
28	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 bonnet	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	bon			good property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	on	a nasal vowel			tree rules
3	go	present	the air		the nose		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through nose=Initial_Location
4	not say speech: assert	present · passive		the n		as bonnet in English	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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:6.

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. 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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