False friends, sentence 1
Raisin looks like raisin, but in French it means a juicy grape; a librairie looks like a library, but it is a bookshop; and attendre looks like attend, but it means to wait.
Who acts: Raisin, librairie, attendre · What happens: look, mean, be, attend, wait · To what, where: juicy grape, bookshop
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 (Raisin, librairie, attendre), 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 | Raisin | raisin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 raisin | case |
| 4 | raisin | raisin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 means | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 French | case |
| 8 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 means | nsubj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looks | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 grape | det |
| 12 | juicy | juicy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grape | amod |
| 13 | grape | grape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 looks | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 librairie | det |
| 16 | librairie | librairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looks | nsubj |
| 17 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looks | conj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 library | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 library | det |
| 20 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looks | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bookshop | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 bookshop | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bookshop | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bookshop | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bookshop | det |
| 26 | bookshop | bookshop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 looks | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 looks | cc |
| 29 | attendre | attendre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looks | nsubj |
| 30 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looks | conj |
| 31 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 32 attend | mark |
| 32 | attend | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 looks | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 means | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 means | cc |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 means | nsubj |
| 36 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looks | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 wait | mark |
| 38 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 means | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Raisin | like raisin | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Raisin | a juicy grape | in French | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot grape=Theme in french=Attribute | |||
| 3 | look | present | a librairie | like a library | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | librairie | a bookshop | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look | present | attendre | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | attend | present | attendre not said here | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | mean | present | attendre | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | attendre not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:035-false-friends.lesson:1.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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