Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing, sentence 4
Picture describing your family to a penpal: "Mon frère est petit, ma sœur est petite, et nos chiens sont très gentils" - every describing word dresses to match.
Who acts: describing word · What happens: describe, dress, match · To what, where: family
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing» 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 (describing word), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 describing | compound |
| 2 | describing | describe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 family | nmod:poss |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 describing | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 penpal | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 penpal | det |
| 7 | penpal | penpal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 describing | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mon | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mon | punct |
| 10 | Mon | mon | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 describing | obl |
| 11 | frère | frère | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 12 | est | est | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 13 | petit | petit | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sœur | punct |
| 15 | ma | ma | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 16 | sœur | sœur | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 17 | est | est | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 18 | petite | petite | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nos | punct |
| 20 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 21 | nos | no | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 22 | chiens | chien | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 23 | sont | sont | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 24 | très | trè | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 25 | gentils | gentil | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Mon | flat:foreign |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 gentils | punct |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 dresses | punct |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 word | det |
| 29 | describing | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 word | amod |
| 30 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dresses | nsubj |
| 31 | dresses | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 describing | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 match | mark |
| 33 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 dresses | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | gerund | your family | to a penpal; Mon obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent family=Theme to penpal=be' | ||||
| 2 | describe | gerund | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | dress | present | every describing word | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | match | to-infinitive | every describing word not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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:027-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing.lesson:4.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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