14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days, sentence 1
The biggest is France's national day, which English speakers often call Bastille Day but French people call le 14 Juillet or la fête nationale: a parade in Paris in the morning, fireworks at night and dances at the fire station.
Who acts: biggest, English speakers · What happens: be, call · To what, where: national day, 14 Juillet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days» 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 (biggest, English speakers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 biggest | det |
| 2 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 day | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | cop |
| 4 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 France | case |
| 6 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 call | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 call | obj |
| 10 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 speakers | amod |
| 11 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 call | nsubj |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 call | advmod |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Bastille | Bastille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Day | compound |
| 15 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 call | obj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 people | cc |
| 17 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 people | amod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 speakers | conj |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | conj |
| 20 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Juillet | det |
| 21 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 Juillet | nummod |
| 22 | Juillet | juillet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 call | obj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 fête | cc |
| 24 | la | la | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fête | det |
| 25 | fête | fête | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Juillet | conj |
| 26 | nationale | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fête | amod |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 parade | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 parade | det |
| 29 | parade | parade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Juillet | appos |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Paris | case |
| 31 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 parade | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 morning | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 morning | det |
| 34 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 parade | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fireworks | punct |
| 36 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 parade | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 night | case |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fireworks | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 dances | cc |
| 40 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 fireworks | conj |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 station | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 station | det |
| 43 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 station | compound |
| 44 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dances | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | 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 | is a | present | the biggest | France's national day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | present | English speakers but French people | France's national day | often property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme day=Result | |||
| 3 | call | present | the biggest not said here | le 14 Juillet or la fête | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent juillet=Recipient |
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:033-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days.lesson:1.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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