The town and directions, sentence 2

Picture yourself lost in a little town in Normandy: you ask "Où est la poste ?", a lady says "Tout droit, puis la deuxième rue à droite, à côté de l'église", and you count the streets on your fingers as you walk.

Who acts: you, lady · What happens: picture, lose, ask, say, count, walk · To what, where: yourself, little town, Où, Tout droit, streets, fingers · Speech: someone speaks here

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, lady), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Picture	obj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Picture	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 town	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 town	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 town	amod
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Normandy	case
9	Normandy	Normandy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 town	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 ask	nsubj
12	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Où	punct
14	Où	Où	X	Foreign=Yes	12 ask	obj
15	est	EST	X	Foreign=Yes	14 Où	flat:foreign
16	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	14 Où	flat:foreign
17	poste	poste	X	Foreign=Yes	14 Où	flat:foreign
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 Où	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Où	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lady	det
22	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 says	nsubj
23	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ask	parataxis
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 droit	punct
25	Tout	tout	X	Foreign=Yes	26 droit	flat:foreign
26	droit	droit	X	Foreign=Yes	23 says	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 puis	punct
28	puis	puis	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 droit	conj
29	la	la	X	ExtPos=PROPN	26 droit	appos
30	deuxième	deuxième	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rue	amod
31	rue	rue	X	_	29 la	flat
32	à	à	ADP	_	33 droite	case
33	droite	droite	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 la	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 côté	punct
35	à	à	ADP	_	36 côté	case
36	côté	côté	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 droit	conj
37	de	de	ADP	_	38 l'église	case
38	l'église	l'église	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 côté	nmod
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 côté	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 count	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 count	cc
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 count	nsubj
43	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ask	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 streets	det
45	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 count	obj
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 fingers	case
47	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 fingers	nmod:poss
48	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 count	obl
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 walk	mark
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 walk	nsubj
51	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 count	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	yourself		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme clause=Attribute
2	lose	participle	you not said here		a little town in Normandy	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in town=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	present	you	Où		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent où=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	present	a lady	Tout droit and puis and côté de l'église		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent droit=Topic
5	count	present	you	the streets	your fingers	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme
6	walk	present	you			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:2.

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 ×3. 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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