Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 7
la mère (mother), la mer (sea) and le maire (mayor) all sound like "MAIR" but are spelled differently and mean different things.
Who acts: la · What happens: sound, spell, mean · To what, where: different things
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 (la), 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 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 sound | nsubj |
| 2 | mère | mère | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 la | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 la | appos |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mer | punct |
| 7 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 mer | flat:foreign |
| 8 | mer | mer | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 la | conj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 sea | punct |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mer | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 sea | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 maire | cc |
| 13 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 maire | flat:foreign |
| 14 | maire | maire | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 la | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 mayor | punct |
| 16 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 maire | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 mayor | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 sound | det |
| 19 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 MAIR | case |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 MAIR | punct |
| 22 | MAIR | mair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sound | obl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 MAIR | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 spelled | cc |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 spelled | aux:pass |
| 26 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sound | conj |
| 27 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 26 spelled | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mean | cc |
| 29 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 spelled | conj |
| 30 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 things | amod |
| 31 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 mean | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | la | like MAIR | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | spell | present · passive | la not said here | differently property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP» | ||||
| 3 | mean | infinitive | la not said here | different things | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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