Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 0
French letters sometimes wear little hats, lines and tails, called accents, and they are part of the spelling, just like the dot on an i.
Who acts: French letters, letters · What happens: wear, call, be · To what, where: little hats, part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends» 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 letters, letters), 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 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 letters | amod |
| 2 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wear | nsubj |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 4 wear | advmod |
| 4 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hats | amod |
| 6 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wear | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lines | punct |
| 8 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hats | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tails | cc |
| 10 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lines | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 accents | punct |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 accents | amod |
| 13 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hats | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 part | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 part | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 part | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 part | cop |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wear | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 spelling | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spelling | det |
| 21 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dot | punct |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 dot | advmod |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 dot | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dot | det |
| 26 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wear | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 an | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 i. | det |
| 29 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 dot | dep |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | French letters | little hats and lines and tails and called accents | like the dot; sometimes property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | letters = letter | part | of the spelling | 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:003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.lesson:0.
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 ×1, 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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