Songs and rhymes, sentence 6

Alouette means a lark; je te plumerai means "I will pluck your feathers", and each verse adds a body part: la tête, le bec, le cou, le dos.

Who acts: Alouette, je, child, verse · What happens: mean, pluck, add · To what, where: lark, feathers, body part · 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 (Alouette, je, child, verse), 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	Alouette	Alouette	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lark	det
4	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
6	je	je	X	Foreign=Yes	9 means	nsubj
7	te	te	X	_	6 je	flat
8	plumerai	plumerai	X	Foreign=Yes	6 je	flat:foreign
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 pluck	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 pluck	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pluck	aux
13	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 means	ccomp
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feathers	nmod:poss
15	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pluck	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 pluck	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 adds	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 adds	cc
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 verse	det
20	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 adds	nsubj
21	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 part	det
23	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 part	compound
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 adds	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 la	punct
26	la	la	X	_	24 part	nmod
27	tête	tête	X	_	26 la	goeswith
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bec	punct
29	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bec	compound
30	bec	bec	X	_	26 la	flat
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cou	punct
32	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cou	compound
33	cou	cou	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bec	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dos	punct
35	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dos	compound
36	dos	dos	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cou	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	Alouette	a lark	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lark=Topic
2	mean	present	je		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pluck in a quote	future	child	your feathers	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
4	add speech: assert	present	each verse	a body part la	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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:6.

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): no change. 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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