14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days, sentence 3

At Easter, French children are told that church bells fly away to Rome and come back on Easter Sunday, dropping chocolate eggs into gardens.

Who acts: church bells · What happens: tell, fly away, come back, drop · To what, where: French children, Easter, Rome, chocolate eggs, gardens · 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 (church bells), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 Easter	case
2	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 children	amod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 fly	mark
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bells	compound
10	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fly	nsubj
11	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	ccomp
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 fly	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Rome	case
14	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fly	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 come	cc
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fly	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 Sunday	case
19	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Sunday	compound
20	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dropping	punct
22	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 come	advcl
23	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eggs	compound
24	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 dropping	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 gardens	case
26	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 dropping	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		French children		Easter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fly away	present	church bells		Rome			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to rome=Result
3	come back	present	church bells not said here				sunday		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	drop	gerund	church bells not said here	chocolate eggs		gardens			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme into garden=Destination

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:3.

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): 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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