Plurals: les, des and silent s, sentence 5
The plural s is usually silent but must be written: le chat ("luh SHA"), les chats ("lay SHA").
Who acts: plural s · What happens: be, write, lay · To what, where: SHA
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 s), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 s | det |
| 2 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 s | amod |
| 3 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 silent | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 silent | cop |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 silent | advmod |
| 6 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 written | cc |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 written | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 written | aux:pass |
| 10 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 silent | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 chat | punct |
| 12 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chat | compound |
| 13 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 written | conj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 SHA | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 SHA | punct |
| 16 | luh | luh | INTJ | _ | 17 SHA | discourse |
| 17 | SHA | SHA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 chat | appos |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 SHA | punct |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 SHA | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 chats | punct |
| 21 | les | le | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 chats | compound |
| 22 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 chat | conj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 lay | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 lay | punct |
| 25 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 chats | appos |
| 26 | SHA | SHA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 lay | obj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 SHA | punct |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 SHA | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 silent | 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 | is | present | the plural s | silent, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | must · passive | the plural s not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | lay in a quote | infinitive | SHA | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sha=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:5.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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