Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 5
The accent aigu (é) leans up to the right and makes e say "ay": le café is "ka-FAY", l'école (school) is "lay-KOL".
Who acts: accent aigu, e, FAY · What happens: lean up, make, say, be · To what, where: e, ay, FAY, lay KOL · 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 (accent aigu, e, FAY), 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 | 3 aigu | det |
| 2 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aigu | compound |
| 3 | aigu | aigu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leans | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 é | punct |
| 5 | é | é | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aigu | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 é | punct |
| 7 | leans | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 leans | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 right | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 right | det |
| 11 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leans | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 makes | cc |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 leans | conj |
| 14 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 makes | obj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 makes | xcomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ay | punct |
| 17 | ay | ay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | obj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ay | punct |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 café | punct |
| 20 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 café | compound |
| 21 | café | café | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ay | appos |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 FAY | cop |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 FAY | punct |
| 24 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 FAY | discourse |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 FAY | punct |
| 26 | FAY | fay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 KOL | nsubj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 FAY | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 l'école | punct |
| 29 | l'école | l'école | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 FAY | conj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 school | punct |
| 31 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 l'école | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 school | punct |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 KOL | cop |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 KOL | punct |
| 35 | lay | lay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 KOL | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 lay | punct |
| 37 | KOL | KOL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 café | nmod |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 KOL | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leans | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean up | present | the accent aigu | to the right | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | present | the accent aigu not said here | e | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | e not said here | ay | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ay=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | FAY and l'école | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | FAY and l'école | lay KOL | 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:5.
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 ×1, 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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