Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl, sentence 14
A few words change meaning with gender: un livre is a book and une livre is a pound; un tour is a trip and une tour is a tower, like la tour Eiffel.
Who acts: few words, book, trip tour · What happens: change, be · To what, where: meaning, pound, tower
This is a sentence of the lesson «Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl» 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 (few words, book, trip tour), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 words | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 change | nsubj |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | meaning | mean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 gender | case |
| 7 | gender | gender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 livre | punct |
| 9 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 livre | compound |
| 10 | livre | livre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gender | conj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pound | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pound | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 livre | cc |
| 15 | une | une | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 livre | compound |
| 16 | livre | livre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 book | conj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pound | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pound | det |
| 19 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | parataxis |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 tour | punct |
| 21 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tour | compound |
| 22 | tour | tour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pound | conj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 tower | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 trip | det |
| 25 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tour | compound |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 une | cc |
| 27 | une | une | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trip | conj |
| 28 | tour | tour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tower | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 tower | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 tower | det |
| 31 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Eiffel | punct |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 tour | case |
| 34 | la | la | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tour | det |
| 35 | tour | tour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tower | obl |
| 36 | Eiffel | Eiffel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 tour | flat |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | a few words | meaning | with gender and un livre | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent mean=Theme with gender=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a book and une livre | a pound and un tour | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | trip tour | a tower | like la tour | tree rules |
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:025-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl.lesson:14.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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