My house and my home, sentence 4
Small words do big jobs: chez moi means "at my house", à côté de means "next to", and you say à before a town but en before most countries, like J'habite à Cardiff, au pays de Galles.
Who acts: Small words, chez, côté de, you · What happens: do, mean, say · To what, where: big jobs, house, à · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «My house and my home» 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 (Small words, chez, côté de, you), 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 jobs | amod |
| 5 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 do | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 7 | chez | chez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 8 | moi | moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chez | flat |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | parataxis |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 house | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 house | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
| 16 | à | à | SCONJ | _ | 19 means | mark |
| 17 | côté | côté | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 de | compound |
| 18 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | nsubj |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | parataxis |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 next | punct |
| 21 | next | next | ADV | _ | 19 means | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 next | fixed |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 say | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 say | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 say | nsubj |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 means | conj |
| 28 | à | à | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 say | obj |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 town | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 town | det |
| 31 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 say | obl |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 en | cc |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 town | conj |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 countries | case |
| 35 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 countries | amod |
| 36 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 town | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Cardiff | punct |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 Cardiff | case |
| 39 | J'habite | j'habite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Cardiff | amod |
| 40 | à | à | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Cardiff | compound |
| 41 | Cardiff | cardiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 countries | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 pays | punct |
| 43 | au | au | ADP | _ | 44 pays | case |
| 44 | pays | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Cardiff | appos |
| 45 | de | de | ADP | _ | 46 Galles | case |
| 46 | Galles | Galles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 pays | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Small words | big jobs | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | chez | my house | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | côté de | next property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | you | à | before a town before most countries like J'habite à Cardiff but en | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent à=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:021-my-house-and-my-home.lesson:4.
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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