Avoir: to have, sentence 8
J'ai peur means "I'm scared"; French says "I have fear".
Who acts: J'ai, English, French · What happens: mean, be, say, have · To what, where: fear · 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 (J'ai, English, French), 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 | J'ai | avoir | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 means | nsubj |
| 2 | peur | peur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 scared | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 scared | nsubj |
| 6 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scared | cop |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | ccomp |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 scared | punct |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 10 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | parataxis |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | ccomp |
| 15 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | J'ai | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | English | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | French | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | French | fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
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:8.
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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