Questions and simple sentences, sentence 13
Pourquoi ? (why?) is answered with parce que (because): Parce que c'est génial !
What happens: answer
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: 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 | Pourquoi | Pourquoi | X | _ | 8 answered | dislocated |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pourquoi | punct |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 why | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 answered | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 why | punct |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 why | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | aux:pass |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 que | case |
| 10 | parce | parce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 que | compound |
| 11 | que | que | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 because | punct |
| 13 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 17 que | case |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 because | punct |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 because | punct |
| 16 | Parce | Parce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 que | compound |
| 17 | que | que | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 18 | c'est | ce | PRON | _ | 19 génial | nsubj |
| 19 | génial | génial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 que | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present · passive | with parce que; Pourquoi dislocated | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V» |
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:13.
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 ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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