Hobbies and sport, sentence 10

La pétanque is a French game of throwing metal balls close to a small wooden ball called le cochonnet (the piglet); children play it too.

Who acts: La French game, small wooden ball, children · What happens: be, throw, call, play · To what, where: La French game, metal balls, le cochonnet, verb · 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 (La French game, small wooden ball, children), 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	La	la	X	_	6 game	compound
2	pétanque	pétanque	X	_	1 La	goeswith
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 game	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 game	amod
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 throwing	mark
8	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 game	acl
9	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 balls	compound
10	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 throwing	obj
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 balls	amod
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 ball	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ball	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ball	amod
15	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ball	amod
16	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 close	obl
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ball	acl
18	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cochonnet	compound
19	cochonnet	cochonnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	xcomp
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 piglet	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 piglet	det
22	piglet	piglet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cochonnet	appos
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 piglet	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 play	punct
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 play	nsubj
26	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 game	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 play	obj
28	too	too	ADV	_	26 play	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 game	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		a La French game	tree rules
2	throw	gerund	a La French game not said here	metal balls	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
3	call	participle	a small wooden ball not said here	le cochonnet	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play	present	children	verb	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:10.

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): R7-rel-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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