Être: to be, sentence 17
Age uses avoir: j'ai neuf ans; "je suis neuf" would mean "I am new".
Who acts: Age, neuf, English · What happens: use, sui, mean, be · To what, where: avoir · 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 (Age, neuf, 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 | Age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uses | nsubj |
| 2 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | avoir | avoir | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 uses | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 avoir | punct |
| 5 | j'ai | j'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 avoir | dep |
| 6 | neuf | neuf | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 j'ai | flat:foreign |
| 7 | ans | an | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 j'ai | flat:foreign |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 suis | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 je | punct |
| 10 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 suis | discourse |
| 11 | suis | sui | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 neuf | dep |
| 12 | neuf | neuf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 neuf | punct |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | aux |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 uses | parataxis |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 new | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 new | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 new | cop |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mean | ccomp |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 new | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uses | 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 | use | present | Age | avoir | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avoir=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sui in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | mean | would | neuf | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | English | new property | tree rules |
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:17.
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): 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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