Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 13
ou means "or" and où means "where": Thé ou café ? (tea or coffee?), Où est le chat ? (where is the cat?).
Who acts: ou, où · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: Thé café, cat
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 (ou, où), 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 | ou | ou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 or | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 2 means | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 or | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 means | cc |
| 7 | où | où | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | conj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 where | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 means | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 where | punct |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Thé | punct |
| 13 | Thé | Thé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 café | compound |
| 14 | ou | ou | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 Thé | dep |
| 15 | café | café | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 tea | punct |
| 18 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | parataxis |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 coffee | cc |
| 20 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tea | conj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 tea | punct |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 tea | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Où | punct |
| 24 | Où | Où | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 chat | compound |
| 25 | est | EST | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Où | flat |
| 26 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 chat | det |
| 27 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 where | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 cat | advmod |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 cat | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cat | det |
| 33 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 33 cat | punct |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 cat | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | ou | Thé café | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | où | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the cat | 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:13.
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 ×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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