Questions and simple sentences, sentence 11
Combien de + plural noun means "how many": combien de frères, combien de chats.
Who acts: Combien plural noun · What happens: mean · To what, where: many
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 (Combien plural noun), 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 | Combien | Combien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 noun | compound |
| 2 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Combien | flat |
| 3 | + | + | SYM | _ | 1 Combien | punct |
| 4 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noun | amod |
| 5 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 many | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 many | punct |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 combien | punct |
| 12 | combien | combien | NOUN | _ | 6 means | conj |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 combien | flat:foreign |
| 14 | frères | frère | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 combien | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 combien | punct |
| 16 | combien | combien | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chats | amod |
| 17 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chats | compound |
| 18 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 frères | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Combien plural noun | many | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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:030-questions-and-simple-sentences.lesson:11.
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. 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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