Plurals: les, des and silent s, sentence 11
Before a vowel the silent s of les and des is said as z: les enfants ("lay-zahn-FAHN"), des oranges.
What happens: say, lay · To what, where: silent s, zahn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plurals: les, des and silent s» 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: 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 vowel | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 vowel | det |
| 3 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 s | det |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 s | amod |
| 6 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 les | case |
| 8 | les | le | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 s | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 des | cc |
| 10 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 les | conj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | aux:pass |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 z | case |
| 14 | z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 enfants | punct |
| 16 | les | le | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 enfants | compound |
| 17 | enfants | enfant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 z | appos |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 enfants | appos |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 zahn | punct |
| 22 | zahn | zahn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 FAHN | punct |
| 24 | FAHN | FAHN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 zahn | appos |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 FAHN | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 oranges | punct |
| 28 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 oranges | compound |
| 29 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 enfants | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | 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 | say speech: assert | present · passive | the silent s of les and des | before a vowel | as z | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | lay in a quote | infinitive | zahn | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zahn=Result |
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:026-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s.lesson:11.
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. 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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