Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 1

An accent can change the sound: café without its é would be read "kaf", and sale (dirty) and salé (salty) are two different words.

Who acts: accent, café, sale · What happens: change, read, be · To what, where: sound, kaf

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 (accent, café, sale), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 accent	det
2	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 café	punct
8	café	café	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	conj
9	without	without	ADP	_	32 words	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 é	nmod:poss
11	é	é	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 café	nmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 read	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 read	aux:pass
14	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 café	acl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 kaf	punct
16	kaf	kaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 read	xcomp
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 kaf	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 words	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sale	cc
20	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 words	nsubj
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 dirty	punct
22	dirty	dirty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sale	appos
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 dirty	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 salé	cc
25	salé	salé	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sale	conj
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 salty	punct
27	salty	salty	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 salé	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 salty	punct
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 words	cop
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 words	nummod
31	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 words	amod
32	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 change	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 change	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	can	a accent	the sound and café café's é		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
2	read	would · passive	café café's é not said here	kaf		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»
3	is	present	sale and salé		without two different words	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:1.

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. 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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