Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 17

The names: aigu means sharp, grave means low, circonflexe means bent around; cédille is "say-DEE-y" and tréma is "tray-MA".

Who acts: aigu, grave, circonflexe, cédille, tréma · What happens: mean, bent around, say, be · To what, where: DEE y, tray MA · 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 (aigu, grave, circonflexe, cédille), 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 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
4	aigu	aigu	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 names	parataxis
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
8	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	conj
10	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 means	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 low	punct
12	circonflexe	circonflexe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	nsubj
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	conj
14	bent	bent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 means	xcomp
15	around	around	ADV	_	14 bent	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 y	punct
17	cédille	cédille	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 y	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 y	cop
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 y	punct
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 y	parataxis
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 DEE	punct
22	DEE	DEE	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 y	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 y	punct
24	y	y	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 names	parataxis
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 y	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 MA	cc
27	tréma	tréma	X	Foreign=Yes	32 MA	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 MA	cop
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 MA	punct
30	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 MA	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 MA	punct
32	MA	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 y	conj
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 MA	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 names	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	aigu		sharp property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	grave		low property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	circonflexe			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bent around not said to happen	present	circonflexe not said here		around property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	cédille	DEE y and tray MA		tree rules
7	is a in a quote	present	tréma	tray MA		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:17.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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