Être: to be, sentence 11
Ils sont means "they are"; the s of ils is silent before a consonant, so ils sont sounds like "eel SON".
Who acts: Ils, words, s, ils sont · What happens: mean, be, sound · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Être: to be» 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 (Ils, words, s, ils sont), 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 | Ils | ils | X | _ | 3 means | nsubj |
| 2 | sont | sont | X | _ | 1 Ils | flat:foreign |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 are | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 silent | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 s | det |
| 10 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 silent | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ils | case |
| 12 | ils | il | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 s | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 silent | cop |
| 14 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | parataxis |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 consonant | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 consonant | det |
| 17 | consonant | consonant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 silent | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sounds | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 sounds | advmod |
| 20 | ils | il | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sont | compound |
| 21 | sont | sont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sounds | nsubj |
| 22 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | parataxis |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 SON | case |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 SON | punct |
| 25 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 SON | compound |
| 26 | SON | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sounds | obl |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 SON | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | 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 | mean | present | Ils | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | words = word | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the s of ils | before a consonant | silent property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sound | present | ils sont | like eel SON | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:028-etre-to-be.lesson:11.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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