Songs and rhymes, sentence 2

Picture a French classroom on a rainy afternoon: half the class sings "Frère Jacques, frère Jacques, dormez-vous ?" and the other half starts a moment later, so the song chases itself round the room as a round.

Who acts: you, class, other half, song · What happens: picture, sing, start, chase · To what, where: French classroom, half, room

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 (you, class, other half, song), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 classroom	det
3	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 classroom	amod
4	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 afternoon	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 afternoon	det
7	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 afternoon	amod
8	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 sings	punct
10	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	12 class	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 class	det
12	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sings	nsubj
13	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 sings	punct
15	Frère	Frère	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Jacques	compound
16	Jacques	Jacques	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sings	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Jacques	punct
18	frère	frère	X	_	16 Jacques	flat:foreign
19	Jacques	Jacques	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sings	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dormez	punct
21	dormez	dormez	X	_	23 vous	flat:foreign
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 dormez	punct
23	vous	vous	X	_	13 sings	conj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 sings	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 sings	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 starts	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 half	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 half	amod
29	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 starts	nsubj
30	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 moment	det
32	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 later	obl:unmarked
33	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 starts	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 chases	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	38 chases	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 song	det
37	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 chases	nsubj
38	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	conj
39	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 chases	obj
40	round	round	ADP	_	42 room	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 room	det
42	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 chases	obl
43	as	as	ADP	_	45 round	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 round	det
45	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 chases	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a French classroom		afternoon		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent classroom=Theme
2	sing speech: express	present	half class					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	start	present	the other half				late property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	chase	present	the song	half	the room		as a round	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Theme round room=Trajectory

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:2.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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