The town and directions, sentence 11
La librairie is a bookshop where you buy books; la bibliothèque is the library where you borrow them.
Who acts: La librairie, you, la bibliothèque · What happens: be, buy, borrow · To what, where: bookshop, books, library
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 (La librairie, you, la bibliothèque), 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 | La | la | X | _ | 2 librairie | flat:foreign |
| 2 | librairie | librairie | X | _ | 5 bookshop | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bookshop | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bookshop | det |
| 5 | bookshop | bookshop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 buy | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 buy | nsubj |
| 8 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bookshop | acl:relcl |
| 9 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 buy | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 bookshop | punct |
| 11 | la | la | X | _ | 12 bibliothèque | flat:foreign |
| 12 | bibliothèque | bibliothèque | X | _ | 15 library | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 library | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 library | det |
| 15 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bookshop | parataxis |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 borrow | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 borrow | nsubj |
| 18 | borrow | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 library | acl:relcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 borrow | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bookshop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | La librairie | a bookshop | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | present | you | books | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | la bibliothèque | the library | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | borrow | present | you | books = book | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:11.
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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