14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days, sentence 10

In France church bells are silent before Easter; children are told les cloches de Pâques fly to Rome and bring back chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday.

Who acts: France church bells, les cloches · What happens: be, tell, fly, bring back · To what, where: children, Rome, chocolate eggs · 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 (France church bells, les cloches), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 bells	case
2	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bells	compound
3	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bells	compound
4	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 silent	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 silent	cop
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 told	parataxis
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 Easter	case
8	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 silent	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 told	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	les	le	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cloches	compound
14	cloches	cloche	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fly	nsubj
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 cloches	conj
16	Pâques	pâque	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fly	nsubj
17	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Rome	case
19	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fly	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bring	cc
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fly	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 bring	advmod
23	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eggs	compound
24	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bring	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 Sunday	case
26	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Sunday	compound
27	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bring	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 silent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	France church bells			before Easter	silent property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive		children				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fly	infinitive	les cloches		Rome			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to rome=Result
4	bring back	infinitive	les cloches not said here	chocolate eggs		sunday		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent egg=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:033-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days.lesson:10.

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 ×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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