In the classroom, sentence 2
The teacher gives orders with vous because she is talking to the whole class: écoutez (listen), regardez (look), levez la main (put your hand up), asseyez-vous (sit down).
Who acts: teacher · What happens: give, talk, listen, look, put up, sit down · To what, where: orders, hand
This is a sentence of the lesson «In the classroom» 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 (teacher), 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 | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gives | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 vous | case |
| 6 | vous | vous | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 orders | nmod |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 talking | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 talking | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 talking | aux |
| 10 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gives | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 class | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 class | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 class | amod |
| 14 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 talking | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 écoutez | punct |
| 16 | écoutez | écoutez | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 class | conj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 listen | punct |
| 18 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 écoutez | parataxis |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 listen | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 regardez | punct |
| 21 | regardez | regardez | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 look | dep |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gives | parataxis |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 levez | punct |
| 26 | levez | levez | X | Foreign=Yes | 28 main | dep |
| 27 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 levez | conj |
| 28 | main | main | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 gives | parataxis |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 main | parataxis |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hand | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 put | compound:prt |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 asseyez | punct |
| 36 | asseyez | asseyez | X | Foreign=Yes | 38 vous | amod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 asseyez | punct |
| 38 | vous | vous | X | Foreign=Yes | 28 main | conj |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 sit | punct |
| 40 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 vous | xcomp |
| 41 | down | down | ADP | _ | 40 sit | compound:prt |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 sit | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the teacher | orders | with vous | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 2 | talk | present · progressive | teacher | to the whole class | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to class=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | put up | infinitive | your hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||||
| 6 | sit down | infinitive | the teacher not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:020-in-the-classroom.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): R6-punct-agree ×5. 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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