The town and directions, sentence 17

La poste is the post office and l'église is the church; in many villages they stand round the main square with the mairie and the bakery.

Who acts: La poste, l'église, villages · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: post office, church, many villages

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 poste, l'église, villages), 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 poste	flat:foreign
2	poste	poste	X	_	6 office	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 office	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 office	det
5	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 office	compound
6	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 church	cc
8	l'église	l'église	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 church	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 church	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 church	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 office	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 stand	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 villages	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 villages	amod
15	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stand	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stand	nsubj
17	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 office	parataxis
18	round	round	ADP	_	21 square	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 square	det
20	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 square	amod
21	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stand	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 mairie	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mairie	det
24	mairie	mairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stand	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bakery	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bakery	det
27	bakery	bakery	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mairie	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 office	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	La poste	the post office and the church			tree rules
2	is a	present	l'église	the church			tree rules
3	stand	present	villages = village		many villages	round the main square; with the mairie and the bakery	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in village=Location

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:17.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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