Plurals: les, des and silent s, sentence 14
A plural noun takes a plural verb: le cheval est, but les chevaux sont.
Who acts: plural noun · What happens: take · To what, where: plural verb
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: who acts (plural noun), 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 noun | det |
| 2 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noun | amod |
| 3 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | nsubj |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 verb | det |
| 6 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 verb | amod |
| 7 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 est | punct |
| 9 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 est | det |
| 10 | cheval | cheval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 est | compound |
| 11 | est | est | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 verb | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sont | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 sont | cc |
| 14 | les | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chevaux | det |
| 15 | chevaux | chevaux | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sont | compound |
| 16 | sont | sont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | a plural noun | a plural verb and le cheval est | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=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:026-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s.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): 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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