False friends, sentence 0

Many French words look just like English ones and mean the same, like animal or table - but some look friendly and then trick you: these are called false friends (faux amis).

Who acts: Many French words, some · What happens: look, mean, trick, call · To what, where: same, you, these · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «False friends» 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 (Many French words, some), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
2	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 ones	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 ones	case
7	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mean	cc
10	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 same	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mean	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 animal	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 animal	case
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 same	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 table	cc
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 animal	conj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 friendly	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 look	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 look	nsubj
21	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	conj
22	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 look	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 trick	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 trick	advmod
25	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 look	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 trick	obj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 called	punct
28	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 called	nsubj:pass
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 called	aux:pass
30	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 trick	conj
31	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 friends	amod
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 called	xcomp
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 amis	punct
34	faux	faux	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 amis	amod
35	amis	ami	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 friends	appos
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 amis	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Many French words			like English ones	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	mean	present	Many French words not said here	the same			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic
3	look	present	some			friendly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	trick	present	some not said here	you	then		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	call	present · passive		these			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:035-false-friends.lesson:0.

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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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