Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 16
sale (no accent) means dirty and sounds like "SAL"; salé means salty and sounds like "sa-LAY".
Who acts: sale, salé · What happens: mean, sound · To what, where: dirty
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 (sale, salé), 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 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 accent | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 accent | det |
| 4 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sale | appos |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 accent | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sounds | cc |
| 9 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 SAL | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 SAL | punct |
| 12 | SAL | sal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sounds | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 SAL | punct |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 15 | salé | salé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | conj |
| 17 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 means | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sounds | cc |
| 19 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 means | conj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 LAY | case |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 LAY | punct |
| 22 | sa | sa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 LAY | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sa | punct |
| 24 | LAY | LAY | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sounds | obl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 LAY | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | sale | dirty | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirty=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | sale not said here | like SAL | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | salé | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sound | present | salé not said here | like sa LAY | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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