Songs and rhymes, sentence 8
Many people say dancers really danced sous le pont, under the bridge, on an island in the river.
Who acts: Many people, dancers · What happens: say, dance · To what, where: bridge · 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 (Many people, dancers), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 danced | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 danced | advmod |
| 6 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 7 | sous | sous | ADP | Foreign=Yes | 9 pont | case |
| 8 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pont | det |
| 9 | pont | pont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 danced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bridge | punct |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 bridge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bridge | det |
| 13 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 danced | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 island | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 island | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 danced | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 island | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Many people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | dance | past | dancers | the bridge | sous le pont; on a island in the river | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bridge=Location |
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:8.
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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