Hobbies and sport, sentence 1

So you say je joue au football, but je joue du piano, and je fais du vélo - a bit like how English says "play football" but "go cycling".

Who acts: you, je, English · What happens: say, fai, play, go · To what, where: du, football · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hobbies and sport» 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, je, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	je	je	X	_	3 say	ccomp
5	joue	joue	X	_	7 football	amod
6	au	au	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 football	compound
7	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 je	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 piano	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 piano	cc
10	je	je	X	_	13 piano	amod
11	joue	joue	X	_	13 piano	amod
12	du	du	X	_	13 piano	amod
13	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fais	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fais	cc
16	je	je	X	_	17 fais	nsubj
17	fais	fai	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
18	du	du	X	_	17 fais	obj
19	vélo	vélo	X	_	18 du	goeswith
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 du	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bit	det
22	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fais	obl:unmarked
23	like	like	SCONJ	_	26 says	mark
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 says	advmod
25	English	English	PROPN	_	26 says	nsubj
26	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bit	acl:relcl
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 play	punct
28	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 says	ccomp
29	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 play	obj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 play	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 cycling	cc
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 play	conj
34	cycling	cycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fais	conj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 cycling	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fai	present	je	du	a bit obl:unmarked	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	English			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	play in a quote	infinitive		football		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme
5	go in a quote	infinitive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:023-hobbies-and-sport.lesson:1.

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 ×3, 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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