Questions and simple sentences, sentence 0
The easiest French question is an ordinary sentence with your voice going up at the end like a little hill: "Tu as un chien ?" - Do you have a dog?
Who acts: easiest French question, voice, you · What happens: be, go up, have · To what, where: ordinary sentence, end, dog
This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions and simple sentences» 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 (easiest French question, voice, you), 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 question | det |
| 2 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 question | amod |
| 3 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 question | amod |
| 4 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sentence | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sentence | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sentence | det |
| 7 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sentence | amod |
| 8 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 voice | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sentence | nmod |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 voice | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 hill | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hill | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hill | amod |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 chien | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 chien | punct |
| 23 | Tu | Tu | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 chien | nsubj |
| 24 | as | as | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 chien | case |
| 25 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 chien | compound |
| 26 | chien | chien | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 sentence | appos |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 chien | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 chien | punct |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 30 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 have | aux |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sentence | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 dog | det |
| 34 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 sentence | 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 easiest French question | a ordinary sentence | with your voice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go up | gerund | your voice not said here | at the end | like a little hill | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | have | present · do-support | you | a dog | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
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:030-questions-and-simple-sentences.lesson:0.
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 ×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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