Avoir: to have, sentence 4
Be careful with two pairs: ils ont (they have, with a buzzing z) and ils sont (they are, with a hissing s); and a with no accent means "has", while à with an accent means "to" or "at".
Who acts: you, pairs, a, à · What happens: be, have, mean · 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, pairs, a, à), 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 | Be | be | AUX | Mood=Imp | 2 careful | cop |
| 2 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 pairs | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pairs | nummod |
| 5 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 careful | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 ont | punct |
| 7 | ils | il | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ont | compound |
| 8 | ont | ont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pairs | nmod |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ont | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 z | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 z | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 z | det |
| 15 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 z | compound |
| 16 | z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sont | cc |
| 19 | ils | il | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sont | compound |
| 20 | sont | sont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pairs | conj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 are | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 are | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sont | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 are | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 hissing | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hissing | det |
| 27 | hissing | hissing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 are | obl |
| 28 | s | 's | PART | Typo=Yes | 27 hissing | case |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 hissing | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 means | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 means | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 means | nsubj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 accent | case |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 accent | det |
| 35 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 a | nmod |
| 36 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 careful | conj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 has | punct |
| 38 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 means | ccomp |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 has | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 means | punct |
| 41 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 46 means | mark |
| 42 | à | à | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 means | nsubj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 accent | case |
| 44 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 accent | det |
| 45 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 à | nmod |
| 46 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 means | advcl |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 to | punct |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 " | mark |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 means | punct |
| 50 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 52 at | cc |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 at | punct |
| 52 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 means | conj |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 at | punct |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | with two pairs ils ont and ils sont; careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | pairs = pair | with a buzzing z | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | a | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | mean | present | à with a accent | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:029-avoir-to-have.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-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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