14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days, sentence 4

Other days are quieter: on 1 May people give little white flowers for luck, and on 11 November whole villages stand in silence at the war memorial.

Who acts: Other days, 1 May people, whole villages · What happens: be, give, stand · To what, where: little white flowers, silence

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 (Other days, 1 May people, whole villages), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	amod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quieter	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quieter	cop
4	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 1	case
7	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 people	nummod
8	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 people	compound
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	nsubj
10	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quieter	parataxis
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flowers	amod
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flowers	amod
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 luck	case
15	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stand	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stand	cc
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 November	case
19	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 November	nummod
20	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 stand	obl
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 villages	amod
22	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stand	nsubj
23	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quieter	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 silence	case
25	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stand	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 memorial	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 memorial	det
28	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 memorial	compound
29	memorial	memorial	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stand	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quieter	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Other days				quiet property	tree rules
2	give	present	1 May people	little white flowers			for luck	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for luck=Asset
3	stand	present	whole villages		silence	november	at the war memorial	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location

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:4.

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): R7-rel-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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