Plurals: les, des and silent s, sentence 7
French keeps des where English often says nothing.
Who acts: French, English · What happens: keep, say · To what, where: des, nothing · 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: who acts (French, English), 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 | French | French | PROPN | _ | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | des | de | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keeps | obj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 says | advmod |
| 5 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 says | advmod |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 keeps | parataxis |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | French | des | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent de=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | English | nothing | often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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:7.
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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