False friends, sentence 5
Faux amis, false friends, are French words that look like English words but mean something different.
Who acts: Faux amis, French words · What happens: be, look, mean · To what, where: French words, something
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 (Faux amis, French words), 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 | Faux | faux | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 amis | amod |
| 2 | amis | ami | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 words | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
| 4 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friends | amod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 amis | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 amis | punct |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 words | cop |
| 8 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 look | nsubj |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 words | acl:relcl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 words | case |
| 13 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 words | amod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 look | obl |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 mean | cc |
| 16 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | conj |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 mean | obj |
| 18 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 something | amod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 words | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Faux amis and false friends | French words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | French words | like English words | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | French words not said here | something | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
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:5.
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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