Plurals: les, des and silent s, sentence 2

Picture a French farm: un cheval in the field becomes des chevaux, un oiseau on the roof becomes des oiseaux, and you cannot see un œil but deux yeux.

Who acts: you, un cheval · What happens: picture, become, not see · To what, where: French farm, chevaux, oiseaux, un œil

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 (you, un cheval), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 farm	det
3	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 farm	amod
4	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 cheval	punct
6	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheval	compound
7	cheval	cheval	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 farm	appos
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 field	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 field	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheval	nmod
11	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cheval	acl:relcl
12	des	de	DET	_	13 chevaux	det
13	chevaux	chevaux	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 becomes	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 oiseau	punct
15	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 oiseau	compound
16	oiseau	oiseau	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chevaux	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 roof	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roof	det
19	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 oiseau	nmod
20	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 becomes	conj
21	des	de	DET	_	22 oiseaux	det
22	oiseaux	oiseaux	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 becomes	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 see	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 see	advmod
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Picture	conj
29	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 œil	compound
30	œil	œil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 yeux	cc
32	deux	deux	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 yeux	compound
33	yeux	yeux	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 œil	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a French farm	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent farm=Theme
2	become	present	un cheval in the field not said here	de chevaux and un oiseau on the roof	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	become	present	un cheval in the field not said here	de oiseaux	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	not see	can	you	un œil but deux yeux	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer œil=Stimulus

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:2.

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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