Avoir: to have, sentence 13
Hair and eyes are described with avoir: elle a les cheveux longs, il a les yeux verts.
Who acts: avoir, les yeux · What happens: describe, elle, vert · To what, where: Hair, les
This is a sentence of the lesson «Avoir: to have» 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 (avoir, les yeux), 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 | Hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 described | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 eyes | cc |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hair | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 described | aux:pass |
| 5 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 avoir | case |
| 7 | avoir | avoir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 described | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 elle | punct |
| 9 | elle | elle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 avoir | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 les | det |
| 11 | les | le | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 elle | obj |
| 12 | cheveux | Cheveux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 longs | compound |
| 13 | longs | long | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 les | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 il | punct |
| 15 | il | IL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 described | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 yeux | det |
| 17 | les | le | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 yeux | compound |
| 18 | yeux | yeux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 verts | nsubj |
| 19 | verts | vert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 described | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 described | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | Hair and eyes | with avoir; il obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | elle | infinitive | avoir not said here | a les and cheveux longs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | vert | present | a les yeux | 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:029-avoir-to-have.lesson:13.
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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