The town and directions, sentence 6
English borrowed gauche to mean clumsy and adroit (from à droit) to mean skilful.
Who acts: English · What happens: borrow, mean · To what, where: gauche
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 (English), 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 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 borrowed | nsubj |
| 2 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gauche | gauche | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 borrowed | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 mean | mark |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 borrowed | advcl |
| 6 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mean | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 adroit | cc |
| 8 | adroit | adroit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clumsy | conj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 droit | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 droit | case |
| 11 | à | à | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 droit | amod |
| 12 | droit | droit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clumsy | parataxis |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 droit | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 mean | mark |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 borrowed | advcl |
| 16 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mean | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 borrowed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | past | English | gauche | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gauche=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | to-infinitive | English not said here | clumsy property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | to-infinitive | English not said here | skilful property | 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:6.
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): no change. 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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