False friends, sentence 4

A false friend can still be a good friend once you know it: un car is a coach, la monnaie is your change, and la lecture is reading time, not a boring talk.

Who acts: false friend, you, un car, la lecture · What happens: be, know, read · To what, where: good friend, habit, coach, change

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 (false friend, you, un car, la lecture), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
2	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friend	amod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 friend	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 friend	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	9 friend	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 friend	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 friend	amod
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 know	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 friend	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 know	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 coach	punct
15	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 car	compound
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 coach	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 coach	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 coach	det
19	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 friend	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 la	punct
21	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	19 coach	conj
22	monnaie	monnaie	X	Foreign=Yes	19 coach	dep
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 change	cop
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 change	nmod:poss
25	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 coach	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reading	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 reading	cc
28	la	la	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lecture	compound
29	lecture	lecture	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reading	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 reading	aux
31	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 friend	conj
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reading	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 talk	punct
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 talk	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 talk	det
36	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 talk	amod
37	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 friend	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 friend	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	can	a false friend	a good friend and a boring talk	still	tree rules
2	know	present	you	habit		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is a	present	un car	a coach and your change		tree rules
4	is a	present	un car not said here	your change		tree rules
5	read	present · progressive	la lecture		time	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: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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