Être: to be, sentence 4
In talk, French people often use on for "we", with the same verb as il: on est.
Who acts: French people · What happens: use on · To what, where: talk
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 (French people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 talk | case |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | nsubj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 use | advmod |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 use | compound:prt |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 we | case |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 we | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 use | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 we | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 verb | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 verb | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 verb | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 verb | amod |
| 17 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 il | case |
| 19 | il | IL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 verb | nmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 est | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 est | case |
| 22 | est | est | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 verb | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use on | present | French people | talk | for we; with the same verb as il and est; often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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, R7-rel-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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