14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days, sentence 2
Picture 1 April in a French playground: children sneak up behind their friends and stick paper fish on their backs, then shout "Poisson d'avril !" - April fish, the French April fool.
Who acts: children · What happens: sneak up, stick, shout · To what, where: paper fish, backs, Poisson d'avril
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 (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 | Picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Picture | flat |
| 3 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | vocative |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 playground | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 playground | det |
| 6 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 playground | amod |
| 7 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 sneak | punct |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sneak | nsubj |
| 10 | sneak | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 sneak | compound:prt |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 friends | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sneak | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stick | cc |
| 16 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sneak | conj |
| 17 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fish | compound |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stick | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 backs | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 backs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stick | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shout | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 shout | advmod |
| 24 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Picture | conj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 shout | punct |
| 26 | Poisson | Poisson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 d'avril | compound |
| 27 | d'avril | d'avril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shout | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 d'avril | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 d'avril | punct |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 fish | punct |
| 31 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 fish | compound |
| 32 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 d'avril | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fool | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 fool | det |
| 35 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fool | amod |
| 36 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 fool | compound |
| 37 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fish | appos |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneak up | present | children | behind children's friends | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind friend=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stick | present | children not said here | paper fish | children's backs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 3 | shout speech: express | infinitive | Poisson d'avril and April fish | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent d'avril=Topic |
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:2.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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