Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style, sentence 14
Mardi gras means "fat Tuesday" (gras means fat); it was the last day for rich food before Lent (the weeks before Easter when many Christians ate plainer food), and children often wear costumes for carnival around then.
Who acts: Mardi gras, gras, many Christians, children · What happens: mean, be, eat, wear · To what, where: fat, last day, plainer food, costumes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» 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 (Mardi gras, gras, many Christians, 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 | Mardi | Mardi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gras | compound |
| 2 | gras | gras | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tuesday | punct |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tuesday | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 means | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tuesday | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 9 | gras | gras | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | parataxis |
| 11 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 day | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 day | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 20 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 food | amod |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | nmod |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 Lent | case |
| 23 | Lent | Lent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 day | nmod |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 weeks | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 weeks | det |
| 26 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Lent | parataxis |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 Easter | case |
| 28 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 weeks | nmod |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 ate | advmod |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Christians | amod |
| 31 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 32 ate | nsubj |
| 32 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 weeks | acl:relcl |
| 33 | plainer | plain | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 food | amod |
| 34 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ate | obj |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 weeks | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 wear | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 wear | cc |
| 38 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 wear | nsubj |
| 39 | often | often | ADV | _ | 40 wear | advmod |
| 40 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 41 | costumes | costume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 wear | obj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 carnival | case |
| 43 | carnival | Carnival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 wear | obl |
| 44 | around | around | ADV | _ | 40 wear | advmod |
| 45 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 wear | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Mardi gras | tuesday | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | gras | fat | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | gras | the last day | before Lent | for rich food | tree rules | ||
| 4 | eat | past | many Christians | plainer food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wear | present | children | costumes | then | for carnival; around, often property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent costume=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:032-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style.lesson:14.
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): 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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