Questions and simple sentences, sentence 14

Comment s'appelle ton chien ? means "What is your dog called?"; the answer is Il s'appelle... or Elle s'appelle...

Who acts: chien, answer · What happens: s'appelle, mean, dog, call, be · To what, where: dog, Il s'appelle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (chien, answer), 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	Comment	comment	ADV	PronType=Int	2 s'appelle	advmod
2	s'appelle	s'appelle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
3	ton	ton	PRON	Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 chien	nmod:poss
4	chien	chien	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 s'appelle	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 dog	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 called	aux:pass
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dog	nmod:poss
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	nsubj:pass
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 means	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 s'appelle	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 s'appelle	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 s'appelle	cop
19	Il	Il	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 s'appelle	compound
20	s'appelle	s'appelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	parataxis
21	...	...	PUNCT	_	24 s'appelle	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 s'appelle	cc
23	Elle	Elle	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 s'appelle	compound
24	s'appelle	s'appelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 s'appelle	conj
25	...	...	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	s'appelle	present	ton's chien		comment property	tree rules
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dog in a quote					tree rules
4	call in a quote	present · passive		your dog		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	is a	present	the answer	Il s'appelle or Elle s'appelle		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:030-questions-and-simple-sentences.lesson:14.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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