Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 8
The accent circonflexe is a little hat (ê, â, î, ô, û); it often stands where an s used to be: forêt (forest), hôpital (hospital), fête (feast), île (isle).
Who acts: accent circonflexe, circonflexe · What happens: be, stand, use · To what, where: little hat, an, forêt
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 circonflexe, circonflexe), 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 circonflexe | det |
| 2 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 circonflexe | compound |
| 3 | circonflexe | circonflexe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hat | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hat | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hat | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hat | amod |
| 7 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 ê | punct |
| 9 | ê | ê | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hat | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 â | punct |
| 11 | â | â | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ê | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 î | punct |
| 13 | î | î | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ê | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ô | punct |
| 15 | ô | ô | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ê | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 û | punct |
| 17 | û | û | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ê | conj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 ê | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 stands | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stands | nsubj |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 stands | advmod |
| 22 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hat | parataxis |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 used | advmod |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 used | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 26 used | aux:pass |
| 26 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 stands | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 be | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 forêt | cop |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 forêt | punct |
| 30 | forêt | forêt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 used | parataxis |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 forest | punct |
| 32 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forêt | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 forest | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hôpital | punct |
| 35 | hôpital | hôpital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forêt | conj |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 hospital | punct |
| 37 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hôpital | appos |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 hospital | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fête | punct |
| 40 | fête | fête | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 forêt | conj |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 feast | punct |
| 42 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fête | appos |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 feast | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 île | punct |
| 45 | île | île | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 feast | conj |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 isle | punct |
| 47 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 île | appos |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 isle | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the accent circonflexe | a little hat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | circonflexe | often property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | an | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | forêt and hôpital and fête | 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:8.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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