Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 7
an, en, am and em usually make one nasal sound, "ahn": la France, maman (mum), un enfant (a child).
Who acts: en · What happens: make · To what, where: one nasal sound
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 (en), 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 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 en | det |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 en | punct |
| 3 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 am | punct |
| 5 | am | am | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 en | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 em | cc |
| 7 | em | em | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 en | conj |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 make | advmod |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 sound | nummod |
| 11 | nasal | nasal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sound | amod |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ahn | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ahn | punct |
| 15 | ahn | ahn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sound | appos |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ahn | punct |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 la | punct |
| 18 | la | la | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obl |
| 19 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 la | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 maman | punct |
| 21 | maman | maman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 la | appos |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 mum | punct |
| 23 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 maman | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 mum | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 enfant | punct |
| 26 | un | un | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 enfant | det |
| 27 | enfant | enfant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 la | appos |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 child | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 child | det |
| 30 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 enfant | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 child | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | a en and am and em | one nasal sound | la obl; usually property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=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:7.
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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