The town and directions, sentence 9
L'hôtel de ville is the town hall in bigger towns; in smaller towns it is called la mairie.
Who acts: L'hôtel · What happens: be, call · To what, where: town hall, bigger towns, baker, smaller towns · 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 (L'hôtel), 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 | L'hôtel | L'hôtel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hall | nsubj |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 L'hôtel | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ville | ville | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 L'hôtel | flat:foreign |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hall | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hall | compound |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 towns | case |
| 9 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 towns | amod |
| 10 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hall | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 towns | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 towns | case |
| 13 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 towns | amod |
| 14 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 called | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 called | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hall | parataxis |
| 18 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | mairie | mairie | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 la | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hall | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | L'hôtel | the town hall | bigger towns | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | present · passive | baker | smaller towns | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:9.
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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