The town and directions, sentence 1

Be careful with two that sound alike: tout droit, "too DRWA", means straight on, while à droite, "a DRWAT", ends with a t sound and means on the right.

Who acts: you, DRWA · What happens: be, sound, mean, end · To what, where: right

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 (you, DRWA), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 careful	cop
2	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 two	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 careful	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sound	nsubj
6	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 two	acl:relcl
7	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	xcomp
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 droit	punct
9	tout	tout	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 droit	compound
10	droit	droit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 droit	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 DRWA	punct
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 DRWA	advmod
14	DRWA	DRWA	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 ends	nsubj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 DRWA	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 DRWA	parataxis
18	straight	straight	ADV	_	19 on	advmod
19	on	on	ADV	_	17 means	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 droite	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 droite	mark
22	à	à	ADP	_	23 droite	case
23	droite	droite	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 DRWA	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 DRWA	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 DRWAT	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 DRWAT	det
27	DRWAT	DRWAT	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 DRWA	appos
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 DRWAT	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 DRWA	punct
30	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 careful	parataxis
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 sound	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sound	det
33	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sound	compound
34	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ends	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 means	cc
36	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 ends	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 right	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 right	det
39	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 means	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 careful	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		with two; careful property	tree rules
2	sound	present			alike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	end	present	DRWA		with a t sound	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with sound=Subeventuality
5	mean	present	DRWA not said here	the right		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:022-the-town-and-directions.lesson:1.

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 ×4, 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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