Songs and rhymes, sentence 15
Meunier, tu dors means "Miller, you are sleeping"; children sing it slower and then faster, like the mill wheel.
Who acts: Meunier, you, children · What happens: mean, sleep, sing · To what, where: shepherdess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Meunier, you, children), 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 | Meunier | Meunier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meunier | punct |
| 3 | tu | tu | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Meunier | flat:foreign |
| 4 | dors | dor | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Meunier | flat:foreign |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Miller | punct |
| 7 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sleeping | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sleeping | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sleeping | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sleeping | aux |
| 11 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 means | ccomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sleeping | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sing | punct |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sing | nsubj |
| 15 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sing | obj |
| 17 | slower | slow | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 sing | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 faster | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 faster | advmod |
| 20 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 slower | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wheel | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 wheel | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wheel | det |
| 24 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wheel | compound |
| 25 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 faster | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Meunier | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | present · progressive | you | Miller vocative | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present | children | shepherdess | slow property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
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:15.
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, R7-rel-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.
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