Songs and rhymes, sentence 3

Some songs are sillier or darker than they sound: "Alouette, gentille alouette" is a cheerful tune about plucking a lark's feathers, one body part at a time.

Who acts: songs, Alouette, cheerful tune · What happens: be, sound, pluck · To what, where: cheerful tune, feathers

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, Alouette, cheerful tune), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 songs	det
2	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sillier	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sillier	cop
4	sillier	silly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 darker	cc
6	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sillier	conj
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 sound	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sound	nsubj
9	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sillier	advcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Alouette	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Alouette	punct
12	Alouette	Alouette	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tune	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 alouette	punct
14	gentille	gentille	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 alouette	amod
15	alouette	alouette	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Alouette	appos
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Alouette	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tune	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tune	det
19	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tune	amod
20	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sound	ccomp
21	about	about	SCONJ	_	22 plucking	mark
22	plucking	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 tune	acl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lark	det
24	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feathers	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 lark	case
26	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 plucking	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 part	punct
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 part	nummod
29	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	compound
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tune	acl:relcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 time	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 time	det
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sillier	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	some songs		silly property	tree rules
2	be		some songs not said here			tree rules
3	sound	present	Songs = song			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	present	Alouette	a cheerful tune		tree rules
5	pluck	gerund	a cheerful tune not said here	a lark's feathers		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

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:3.

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 ×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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