Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 3
The little hat ê often marks a lost s from long ago, so forêt was once "forest", and fête was once "feste" (a feast).
Who acts: little hat ê, forêt, fête · What happens: mark, be · To what, where: lost, forest, feste
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 (little hat ê, forêt, fête), 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 | 4 ê | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ê | amod |
| 3 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ê | compound |
| 4 | ê | ê | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marks | nsubj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 marks | advmod |
| 6 | marks | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lost | det |
| 8 | lost | lost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marks | obj |
| 9 | s | 's | PART | Typo=Yes | 8 lost | case |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 ago | case |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 ago | advmod |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 lost | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forest | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 forest | advmod |
| 15 | forêt | forêt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forest | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 forest | cop |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 forest | advmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 forest | punct |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marks | parataxis |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 forest | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 feste | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 feste | cc |
| 23 | fête | fête | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feste | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 feste | cop |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 feste | advmod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 feste | punct |
| 27 | feste | feste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | appos |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 feste | punct |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 feast | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 feast | det |
| 31 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feste | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 feast | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 marks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present | the little hat ê | a lost | often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | forêt | forest | once property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | fête | feste | once property | 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:3.
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 ×3. 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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