Avoir: to have, sentence 2

Picture a holiday cottage in France at night: a huge spider runs across the floor, you jump on the bed and shout "J'ai peur !" - and your French friend laughs, "Il y a une araignée !", there's a spider!

Who acts: you, huge spider, French friend, Il, spider · What happens: picture, run, jump, shout, laugh, y · To what, where: holiday cottage, France, floor, bed, une araignée · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, huge spider, French friend, Il), 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	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cottage	det
3	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cottage	compound
4	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 France	case
6	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 runs	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 spider	det
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spider	amod
12	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 runs	nsubj
13	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 floor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 runs	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 jump	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 jump	nsubj
19	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 runs	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 bed	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bed	det
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jump	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shout	cc
24	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 jump	conj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 jump	punct
26	J'ai	J'ai	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 peur	compound
27	peur	peur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	parataxis
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 laughs	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 laughs	cc
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 friend	nmod:poss
33	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 friend	amod
34	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 laughs	nsubj
35	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 jump	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct
38	Il	Il	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 y	nsubj
39	y	y	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 araignée	det
41	une	une	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 araignée	compound
42	araignée	araignée	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 y	obj
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	42 araignée	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 araignée	punct
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 's	punct
46	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	47 's	expl
47	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 y	parataxis
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 spider	det
49	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 's	nsubj
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a holiday cottage	France	night	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme clause=Attribute
2	run	present	a huge spider		the floor		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory
3	jump	present	you		the bed		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bed=Trajectory
4	shout speech: express	present	you not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	laugh	present	your French friend				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	y in a quote	past	Il	a une araignée			tree rules
7	be	present	a spider		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:2.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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