The town and directions, sentence 3

Some signs look English but trick you: a librairie sells books, the hôtel de ville is the town hall, and sortie over a door means the way out.

Who acts: signs, librairie, hôtel de ville, sortie · What happens: look, trick, sell, be, mean · To what, where: you, books, town hall, way

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 (signs, librairie, hôtel de ville, sortie), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 signs	det
2	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 trick	cc
6	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 trick	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 librairie	det
10	librairie	librairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sells	nsubj
11	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	parataxis
12	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sells	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hall	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ville	det
15	hôtel	hôtel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ville	compound
16	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ville	compound
17	ville	ville	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hall	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hall	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hall	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hall	compound
21	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 means	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sortie	cc
24	sortie	sortie	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 means	nsubj
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sortie	nmod
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hall	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 means	obj
31	out	out	ADV	_	30 way	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	some signs		english property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	trick	present	some signs not said here	you		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	sell	present	a librairie	books		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
4	is a	present	the hôtel de ville	the town hall		tree rules
5	mean	present	sortie over a door	the way		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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:3.

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 ×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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