Songs and rhymes, sentence 1
Songs are a clever way to learn: the tune carries the words into your memory, and many songs secretly teach numbers, body parts, clothes or how adjectives agree.
Who acts: Songs, tune, many songs, adjectives · What happens: be, learn, carry, teach, agree · To what, where: clever way, words, memory, numbers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Songs and rhymes» 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 (Songs, tune, many songs, adjectives), 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 | Songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 way | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 learn | mark |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 carries | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tune | det |
| 10 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carries | nsubj |
| 11 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carries | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 memory | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 memory | nmod:poss |
| 16 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carries | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 teach | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 clothes | cc |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 songs | amod |
| 20 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 teach | nsubj |
| 21 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 22 teach | advmod |
| 22 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 carries | conj |
| 23 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 teach | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 parts | punct |
| 25 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 parts | compound |
| 26 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 numbers | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 clothes | punct |
| 28 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 teach | obj |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 agree | cc |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 agree | advmod |
| 31 | adjectives | adjective | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 agree | nsubj |
| 32 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 clothes | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Songs | a clever way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | carry | present | the tune | the words | your memory | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 4 | teach speech: other | present | many songs | numbers and body parts | secretly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent number=Recipient clothes=Topic | |||
| 5 | agree speech: agree | present | adjectives | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:031-songs-and-rhymes.lesson:1.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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