The town and directions, sentence 0

Getting around a French town needs only a handful of words: tout droit (straight on), à gauche (left), à droite (right), and the names of the shops and buildings you are looking for.

Who acts: Getting, you · What happens: get around, need, look, name · To what, where: French town, handful, shops

This is a sentence of the lesson «The town and directions» 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 (Getting, 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	Getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 needs	csubj
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 Getting	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 town	det
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 town	amod
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obl
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 handful	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 handful	det
9	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 words	case
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 handful	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 droit	punct
13	tout	tout	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 droit	compound
14	droit	droit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 words	appos
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 straight	punct
16	straight	straight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 droit	appos
17	on	on	ADP	_	16 straight	nmod
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 on	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gauche	punct
20	à	à	ADP	_	21 gauche	case
21	gauche	gauche	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 droit	parataxis
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
23	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gauche	conj
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 droite	punct
26	à	à	ADP	_	27 droite	case
27	droite	droite	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	xcomp
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 right	punct
29	right	right	ADV	_	27 droite	advmod
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 right	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 names	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 names	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 names	det
34	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 droit	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 shops	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 shops	det
37	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 names	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 buildings	cc
39	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shops	conj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 looking	nsubj
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 looking	aux
42	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 shops	acl:relcl
43	for	for	ADP	_	42 looking	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get around	gerund		a French town	around property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	need	present	Getting	a handful of words		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot handful=Theme
3	look	present · progressive	you	the shops and buildings not said here		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shop=Attribute
4	name			the shops and buildings		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:022-the-town-and-directions.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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