Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 14

The tréma is two dots (ë, ï); it tells you to say two vowels separately: Noël is "no-EL", le maïs (sweetcorn) is "ma-EES".

Who acts: tréma, Noël, le maïs · What happens: be, tell, say · To what, where: two dots, you, two vowels, EL, ma EES · 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 (tréma, Noël, le maïs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tréma	det
2	tréma	tréma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dots	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dots	cop
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 dots	nummod
5	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 ë	punct
7	ë	ë	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dots	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ï	punct
9	ï	ï	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ë	conj
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 ë	punct
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 tells	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tells	nsubj
13	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dots	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tells	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tells	xcomp
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 vowels	nummod
18	vowels	vowel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	obj
19	separately	separately	ADV	_	16 say	advmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 EL	punct
21	Noël	Noël	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 EL	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 EL	cop
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 EL	punct
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 EL	det
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 EL	punct
26	EL	el	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dots	parataxis
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 EL	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 maïs	punct
29	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 maïs	compound
30	maïs	maï	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 EES	nsubj
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 sweetcorn	punct
32	sweetcorn	sweetcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 maïs	appos
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 sweetcorn	punct
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 EES	cop
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 EES	punct
36	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 EES	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 EES	punct
38	EES	EES	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 EL	conj
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 EES	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dots	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the tréma	two dots			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	tréma		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	tréma not said here	two vowels		separately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vowel=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	Noël	no EL and ma EES			tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	le maïs	ma EES			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:14.

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 ×2, 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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