Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas, sentence 7
Pourquoi ? means "Why?" and parce que means "because": parce que c'est délicieux, nul, ennuyeux (boring) or drôle (funny).
Who acts: Pourquoi, parce que · What happens: mean
This is a sentence of the lesson «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» 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 (Pourquoi, parce que), 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 | Pourquoi | Pourquoi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pourquoi | punct |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Why | punct |
| 5 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 means | conj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Why | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Why | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 means | cc |
| 9 | parce | parce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 que | compound |
| 10 | que | que | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 because | punct |
| 13 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 17 que | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 because | punct |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 because | punct |
| 16 | parce | parce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 que | compound |
| 17 | que | que | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obl |
| 18 | c'est | c' | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 délicieux | dep |
| 19 | délicieux | délicieux | ADJ | Foreign=Yes | 17 que | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nul | punct |
| 21 | nul | nul | ADJ | Foreign=Yes | 19 délicieux | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ennuyeux | punct |
| 23 | ennuyeux | ennuyeux | ADJ | Foreign=Yes | 19 délicieux | conj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 boring | punct |
| 25 | boring | boring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ennuyeux | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 boring | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 drôle | cc |
| 28 | drôle | drôle | ADJ | Foreign=Yes | 19 délicieux | conj |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 funny | punct |
| 30 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 drôle | amod |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 funny | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Pourquoi | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | parce que | because parce que | 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:024-likes-and-dislikes.lesson:7.
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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