Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 2

An accent can also change only the meaning: ou means "or" and où means "where", and they sound exactly the same.

Who acts: accent, ou, où, accents · What happens: change, mean, sound · To what, where: meaning

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, ou, où, accents), 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	5 change	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 change	advmod
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 meaning	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meaning	det
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
10	ou	ou	X	Foreign=Yes	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 change	parataxis
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 means	cc
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 or	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 means	cc
16	où	où	X	Foreign=Yes	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 where	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 means	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 where	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sound	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sound	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sound	nsubj
24	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 change	conj
25	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	27 same	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 same	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sound	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 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 meaning		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient
2	mean	present	ou			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	où			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	sound	present	accents = accent		same property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:2.

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. 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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